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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Using 'split' with multi character expressions
Message-ID: <8209@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 26 May 90 03:33:23 GMT
References: <1933@pyrltd.UUCP> <8203@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <9423@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <9423@pt.cs.cmu.edu> mleone@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Mark Leone) writes:
: 
: 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?

Uh, I don't have any trouble with split(/$word/i,$string).  Are you sure
you didn't just try split(/x/i, $string) and generalize from that?  The
case of a single explicit split letter doesn't work right, but I can't
get anything else to misbehave here, including if $word is a single char.

By the way, the next patch will fix split(/x/i).

Larry