Update: Everything below is wrong, as ambrus mentions in the reply. (Note to self: Self, just because you get the correct result doesn't mean that you got the right answer!)

ambrus:

You forgot some parenthesis:

(2==(my($x,$y) = split " ")) or die "wrong number of fieldsd";

Example:

$ cat foo.pl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $x; my $y;
while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    (2==0+(($x, $y) = split /:/,$_)) or print "wrong number of fields\
+n";
    print "<$_>, <$x>, <$y>\n";
}
__DATA__
FOO:BAR:BAZ:PLOVE
FOO:BAR:BAZ
FOO:BAR
BAZ
$ perl foo.pl
wrong number of fields
<FOO:BAR:BAZ:PLOVE>, <FOO>, <BAR>
wrong number of fields
<FOO:BAR:BAZ>, <FOO>, <BAR>
<FOO:BAR>, <FOO>, <BAR>
wrong number of fields
Use of uninitialized value $y in concatenation (.) or string at foo.pl
+ line 7, <DATA> line 4.
<BAZ>, <BAZ>, <>

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...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re: Surprise: scalar(($x, $y) = split) by roboticus
in thread Surprise: scalar(($x, $y) = split) by ambrus

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