Hi Monks,
I'm trying to split x.y into (x,y), but if I see something like x.z.y, I want (x.z,y), not (x,z,y). Basically, I always want the string broken up into 2 substrings - everything up to the last period and everything after. I thought that the following would get the job done:
my $str = "x.z.y"
my ($first,$second) = split(/\.[^.]*$/,$str)
but perl has fooled me again! Why is this only returning x.z in $first and nothing in $second?
Best Regards,
Michael
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