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in thread Do as I say. Not as I do

I'd change the second split to use delimiters other than /.

Good point, VSarkiss, but when using a different delimiter you have to write 

split m|/|;

# instead of
split |/|;

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I agree fully with your suggestions and like especially your point about making the comment. This solution was not mentioned elsewhere. A perl programmer should know that $_ (or $elem) is an alias for the actual element. Nevertheless overreading this is easy, so the comment is a good solution.

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Re: Re: Re: Do as I say. Not as I do
by runrig (Abbot) on Dec 17, 2001 at 22:24 UTC
    Good point, VSarkiss, but when using a different delimiter you have to write 
    split m|/|;

# instead of
split |/|;

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    Or you can say: split "/"; (though " " is, of course, a special case, but for other simple one character (non-metacharacter) splits I like to use quotes :) If you're splitting on literal ".", you can't use "." but you could use "\\." but then I'd just assume use /\./ ...Got all that?
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