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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: split()
Message-ID: <z36534@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 22 Apr 91 02:53:12 GMT
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Reply-To: subbarao@phoenix (Kartik Subbarao)
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Why do I have to say this in perl:

@foo = split(/[ ,]+/, join(' ', @ARGV));

When all I just want to say is:

@foo = splif(/[ ,]+/, @ARGV);

what I get in the second instance is the scalar number of things that were
split, rather than the actual split items....Am I misinterpreting what
split does?


		-Kartik

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