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From: mleone@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Mark Leone)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Using 'split' with multi character expressions
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Date: 25 May 90 22:53:54 GMT
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On a related note, why doesn't split allow a case-insensitive pattern?
I.e., split(/$word/i, $string).  It seems like all the other pattern
operations support case-insensitivity!

Is there some other good way to do this when $word and $string are not
known at compile-time?

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Mark R. Leone  <mleone@cs.cmu.edu>              
Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University    
Pittsburgh, PA 15213