in reply to Having difficulties with "split"

Split takes a regex (not a string) as first argument and . is a meta character in regexes.

Try escaping with /\.\./

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update
  DB<100> split "..", "1..2..3"
 => ("", "", "", 3)

  DB<101> split /\.\./, "1..2..3"
 => (1, 2, 3)

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