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From: pda@stiatl.UUCP (Paul D. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: "MOST COMMON NOVICE BUG" contest
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Date: 12 Mar 90 18:06:31 GMT
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pvo@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill) writes:

>I keep thinking split() has a default delimiter. (' ')

Me too!  And when I remember that I have to give it a delimiter,
I invariably use a literal instead of a regexp.

-paul
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