Re: print statement problem

A bit subtle this one: the first arg to split is actually a regular expression. "." matches any character; so every character is a separator. So the elements in @title are blank.

To solve it, simply backslash it:

  split('\.', $file)
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Re: Re: print statement problem by cal (Beadle) on Jul 22, 2002 at 22:54 UTC
Thanks, I tried the split syntax change and It works great. right on Cal	[reply]
Re^3: print statement problem by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jul 23, 2002 at 00:15 UTC
It should really be written as `split /\./, $file` though, since split actually uses a regex as the delimiter. Passing a string is misleading and may trip someone who casually reads your code. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]