Re: Are strings lists of characters?

Why split? Perl 5 can already do all that with an iterator that is context aware to boot.

$_ = join '', 'a' .. 'z';

print "$1\n" while /(.)/sg;

print map "$_\n", /(.)/sg;
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Did I miss anything?

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re: Re: Are strings lists of characters? by petral (Curate) on Oct 18, 2002 at 21:06 UTC
Did I miss anything? `print map chr."\n", unpack "C", $_;` ? (TIMTOWTDI :-) ) update:* and: `print chr for unpack "C*", $_` p	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Are strings lists of characters? by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Oct 18, 2002 at 21:08 UTC
Now put that in a `while` loop condition. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]