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From: bjorn@mips.COM (Bjorn Satdeva - /sys/admin Inc)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: shift( split( ... - bad syntax
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Date: 31 Oct 90 19:12:17 GMT
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Why is the following not legal?

	$OldName = shift( split( '\.', $OldDomain ) );

Split is returnning an array.  Doing a shift on the result, without 
first storing it to a temp variable seems to me it should be a perfectly 
legal thing to to.

What had I misunderstood?

Bjorn Satdeva