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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: "MOST COMMON NOVICE BUG" contest
Message-ID: <7382@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 12 Mar 90 18:09:39 GMT
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In article <16731@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> pvo@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill) writes:
: I keep thinking split() has a default delimiter. (' ')

It does if you leave the parens off.  It's not precisely ' ' though.  You
get split(/\s+/), the difference being that ' ' will trim leading whitespace
before splitting.

Chief Hairsplitter,
Larry