Hi,

I'm working on a project which uses another guy's code and he had all warnings off so I've been trying to clean up his code in order to get a clean compile. I've managed to clean up all but two lines of code, which are being used in a peculiar way.

The code is as follows:

$var_cellsplit=split( //. $var_cellname );
$var_cdrcellsplit=split( //. $var_cdrcellname );

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Now what he's trying to do is to get the length of $var_cellname and $var_cdrcellname by splitting into elements and counting the elements. It works, but it returns the error shown above.

Is there a way to make this cleaner? I'm assuming he went this way for a reason instead of using length().

Thanks,
Alatar

*EDIT* Roy and Dave, thanks for the explanation. The . was simply a typo as I'm accessing the web from a different PC than where I have the Code. I'm pretty sure now that he was doing this because he wasn't aware of the length() function.

In reply to Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated by Alatar

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