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Re^2: Split Decision

by Aragorn (Curate)
on Jan 06, 2005 at 14:37 UTC ( [id://419930]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Split Decision
in thread Split Decision

'\n' will also work:
#!/usr/bin/perl my $string = "Bla\nBlo\nBloe"; print join("|", split('\n', $string));
This works, and the reason becomes clear when you run it through B::Deparse:
$ perl -MO=Deparse split.pl my $string = "Bla\nBlo\nBloe"; print join('|', split(/\n/, $string, 0)); split.pl syntax OK

Arjen

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Re^3: Split Decision
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 06, 2005 at 14:47 UTC

    You live and learn :) What a stupid special exception!


    Examine what is said, not who speaks.
    Silence betokens consent.
    Love the truth but pardon error.

      It's not really a special exception, the first argument to split() is a regular expression, irrespective of what the delimiters are, the only special case there being the difference between / / and ' '.

      /J\

      Some playing around shows it's not an exception:
      #!/usr/bin/perl my $string = "Bla\nBlo\nBloe"; print join("|", split('something', $string));
      This code is parsed as
      ~$ perl -MO=Deparse split.pl my $string = "Bla\nBlo\nBloe"; print join('|', split(/something/, $string, 0)); split.pl syntax OK
      The same goes for double quotes. split() expects a regex, but apparently will settle for things in quotes and interpret the string as a regex. Indeed, you live and learn :-)

      Arjen

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