Hello, I was trying to test how split works and ran into this issue. Please help: 
#test 1
$s ="This   is   a   test";
$d =" ";

  print "--- output 1 --- \n";
    @ar = split($d, $s);
    foreach $i (@ar) {
    print "|$i| \n";
    }

   #test 2
   #how come this one prints differently?
   print "--- output 2 --- \n";
   @ar = split(" ", $s);
    foreach $i (@ar) {
    print "|$i| \n";
    }

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First one prints this: 
--- output 1 --- 
|this| 
|| 
|| 
|is| 
|| 
|| 
|a| 
|| 
|| 
|| 
|test|

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I think this is the correct behavior. But the second one prints like this(when delimiter is used directly): 
--- output 2 --- 
|this| 
|is| 
|a| 
|test|

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I am using perl 5.8.5 on linux. Thanks a lot!
I am sorry I made a change to the question -- originally I had $delim = " " (instead of $d = " ") which was a typo.

In reply to Interesting issues with split function by podian

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