The following perl code should print
A B:C D
A B
C D
but instead it prints
A B:C D
A
B
C
D

$t = "A B:C D";
@a =split(/:/, $t);
print $t. "\n";
foreach $b (<@a>) { print $b ."\n";}

I have used split before and never noticed such behavior.
I got the same problem on perl v5.6.1 running on Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) (2.4.33.2)
and
perl v5.14.2 running on Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (3.5.0-54-generic)

Am I missing something ? Thank you

In reply to split(/:/, $t) splits also on white space by Nagarjuna

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