Good day, monastic ones. When I run the following code 
my $string = "foo / bar & etc";
my @parts = split(/ (\&|\/) /,$string);
print join("\n",@parts);

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the output is

foo
/
bar
&
etc

I don't understand why I'm getting the slash and ampersand. I thought whatever is specified as the split string is considered delimiter and is not supposed to be included in the resulting list. So for example if I run 

my $string = "foo    bar    etc";
my @parts = split(/\t/,$string);
print join("\n",@parts);

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(those are tabs between the words; don't know if they come thru as such on this post) then the resulting output is

foo
bar
etc

with no tab chars output. What accounts for the difference between the two cases?

Many TIA....

Steve

In reply to Why do I get regexp chars in split? by cormanaz

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