tilly: Kudos to the first person to figure out what the bug is.

I'm guessing split /\W/: this splits on each non-word character, but if there are several \Ws together(a comma followed by a space, for instance) it will split between them, creating a spurious "" word. The fix was to look for \w+ (although you might also say split /\W+/).

Update: The above split-based "solution" introduces spurious "" words if a line (say) begins (or ends) with a \W. Looks like m/(\w+)/g is the Right Thing in this case.

Update 2: Of course, split discards any empty trailing entries, so only the ones at the beginning of the line are a problem. (I'll get this eventually...)

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In reply to Re(3): Efficiency in maintenance coding... by FoxtrotUniform
in thread Efficiency in maintenance coding... by eduardo

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