The default split is: split (/\s+/,$_); or split (' ',$_);.

Correction as per graff: split ' ',$_ will split on whitespace. I alway put a regex in there, but this alternate syntax is completely legal. This a bit different than the above split(" ",$_);. First, split takes a regex as the pattern and not a char string, so I'm not sure that " " even works.

Anyway, splitting on a single space (or tab) is not the same as splitting on a sequence of the whitespace characters. The whitespace family has 5 chars: \s\f\r\n\t. /\s+/ will split on any of them. Since you can't actually see a whitespace char, "is that one space, two spaces or a tab" or whatever can be problematic.

An interesting thing about this is when processing normal test lines, there is no need to "chomp" when using /\s+/ because \n is one of the split characters.

In reply to Re^2: New Problem by Marshall
in thread Tagging the last elements by crochunter

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