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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
Message-ID: <9440@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 27 May 90 21:46:22 GMT
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In article <8209@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>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.

Oops!  You're right, I lept to the wrong conclusion by testing a single
explicit letter (and reading the documentation :-).  Thanks for setting
me straight.

- Mark