After some CB discussion, tilly convinced me why the open was not such good magic. So I devoted a separate routine to that. The filehandle still is in the normal supersplit routine.

I personally vote for the split order of arguments, because people are more familiar with that. I think the variable length list can be coped with by the pop's. If that's unusual, so be it. I know that this order is mostly not a good idea.

Moreover, you can provide a limit option now. Because there is some magic involved, I doubled a function that doesn't try to find a limit parameter at the end.

The code has been posted more than enough now, so I hooked it up to my homenode. POD has been updated. Code has been tested.

Cheers,

Jeroen
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