Paul Lalli wrote:
Annoyingly, split / /, $foo; and split ' ', $foo; are not the same
thing. split ' ', $foo is a special case that means to split on all
sequences of whitespace. It means the same thing as split /\s+/,
$foo;
Not quite Paul. From perldoc -f split:
A "split" on "/\s+/" is like a "split(' ')" except that any leading
whitespace produces a null first field.
so ' ' splits at the same places as /\s+/, but also omits any leading
empty fields that would result.
Rob
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