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perhaps "If there are zero non-empty matches, all are treated as empty trailing fields and are deleted."

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Re^3: splitting nothing?
by ysth (Canon) on Jul 14, 2004 at 00:04 UTC
    How does this look: 
    --- perlfunc.pod.orig    2004-06-01 05:37:39.000000000 -0700
+++ perlfunc.pod    2004-07-13 17:02:48.436164800 -0700
@@ -4986,7 +4986,7 @@
 
 Splits the string EXPR into a list of strings and returns that list. 
+ By
 default, empty leading fields are preserved, and empty trailing ones 
+are
-deleted.
+deleted.  (If all fields are empty, they are considered to be trailin
+g.)
 
 In scalar context, returns the number of fields found and splits into
 the C<@_> array.  Use of split in scalar context is deprecated, howev
+er,

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      sounds clear to me :)
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