Idiomatic as always. Is there still a fat comma in Perl 6? However the key point for me is that if you are going to split on a array of delimiters you often need to sort them by length first to get the behaviour you want. The ':' '::' example is a good case in point. If the order is ':', '::' you will never split on '::' as Perl will always do the ':' split and as a result return a number of (probably) unwanted null fields if we have any instances of '::' in the split string. This also holds true in the more usual case where you are doing a match or sub (on|a|range|of|odds|and|ends). If we used that order we would never match 'range' or 'and' as we always match the 'a' - unless we applied boundary conditions, etc....

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Re: expanding the functionality of split by tachyon
in thread expanding the functionality of split by tigervamp

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