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From: dan@kfw.COM (Dan Mick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: "MOST COMMON NOVICE BUG" contest
Message-ID: <1990Mar12.190756.24095@kfw.COM>
Date: 12 Mar 90 19:07:56 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. (' ')

Um...it does, right?  Whitespace ([ \t\n]+), not just ' ', but default and 
usually-useful, nonetheless...