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From: paw@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson)
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Subject: pop(split()) problems
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Date: 1 Mar 91 18:28:47 GMT
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I'm new to perl, so please *email* if this is something really obvious:

Running perl 3.0.1.10, pl 44, I get compaints about  

	$file = '/tmp/'.(pop(split(/\//,$file)));

but the (apparently) equivalent

	@tmp = split(/\//,$file);
	$tmp = pop(@tmp);
	$file = '/tmp/'.$tmp;

works just fine (I'm stripping the path off of a filename, and prepending 
/tmp to the result).  According to the book, the first statement _ought_
to work, but perl doesn't seem to like pop(split()).

Am I missing something?  Will I be able to do this in 4.0?

-- 
Pat Wilson
Systems Manager, Project NORTHSTAR
paw@northstar.dartmouth.edu