Re: Array empty

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hi, In you code, split returns all fields found in $ip using '.' metacharacter as a delimiter. '.' metacharacter matches almost any character but newline. As a consequence,@t will contain invisible characters as NUL character and \n. When you do :

map { print ord $_,"\n" } split(/./, $ip);
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You 'll print the ascii code of each element in the returned list by split function. Here's the output i get :

0 is the ascii NUL and 10 is the newline character. I hope you understand these explanations, Arnaud

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Re: Re: Array empty by bart (Canon) on Oct 05, 2003 at 14:11 UTC
Close. But ord($_) returns 0 not because it contains a null byte, but because it is an empty string. `print ord("");` [download] prints: `0` (Where on earth would he be getting null bytes from?) Indeed, the resulting array he's getting after doing `$ip = "21.23\n"; @t = split /./, $ip;` [download] is ("", "", "", "", "", "\n") The explanation: every character in the input string, except the newline, is used as a split delimiter. Thus you get, as a result, the stuff between those characters, which is nothing every time, except at the last character.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: Array empty
by bart (Canon) on Oct 05, 2003 at 14:11 UTC

print ord("");
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0

Indeed, the resulting array he's getting after doing

$ip = "21.23\n";
@t = split /./, $ip;
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("", "", "", "", "", "\n")

The explanation: every character in the input string, except the newline, is used as a split delimiter. Thus you get, as a result, the stuff between those characters, which is nothing every time, except at the last character.

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