in reply to Proper way to split a line with the "," delimiter

perl -E "my $string='nick,1,2,,56,88'; my @array = split(/\,/, $string
+); my $size = @array; say 'Size: ', $size; say for @array"
Size: 6
nick
1
2

56
88

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So it returns 6 elements, not 4 or 5. How do you test the size?

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