Use Devel::Peek with working/nonworking to see the difference

Sounds like a bug in perl 

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use Devel::Peek qw/ Dump /;


eval {
    my $value = "A\tB\tC\tD\tE\tF";
    my @flds = split(/\t/, $value);
    $flds[16] = undef;
    $flds[8] = 0;
    Dump( \@flds );
    print scalar @flds, "\n", '#'x5,"\n";
    1;
} or warn $@;
eval {
    my $value = "A\tB\tC\tD\tE\tF\t\t\t\t\t\t";
    my @flds = split(/\t/, $value);
    Dump( \@flds );
    $flds[16] = undef;
    $flds[8] = 0;
    print scalar @flds, "\n", '#'x5,"\n";
    1;
} or warn $@;
__END__

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In reply to Re^3: split problem ( Modification of a read-only value attempted , Devel::Peek ) by Anonymous Monk
in thread split problem by rmarkman

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