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$ perl -E'say scalar( split( /\./, q{.}, -1 ));' 2 $ perl -E'say scalar( split( q{.}, q{.}, -1 ));' 2
$ perl -MData::Dump -e 'dd split( /\./, q{.x.} )' ("", "x") ... ("", "x", "") $ perl -MData::Dump -e 'dd split( q{.}, q{.x.}, -1 )' ("", "", "", "")