in reply to I'm splitting a scalar and putting the results in an array. Why is the first element empty?
The specified regexp is used to locate the seperator. split returns the two items being seperated by the seperator (as well a the seperator because of the parens). In this case, that's the string "" and "Any garbled crap2345n&%]i".
Regexps are more apt at extracting data when there is no clear, repeating seperator.
@MatchFoundArray = $WikiHistory =~ /(\* \[)(.*)/;
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Re^2: I'm splitting a scalar and putting the results in an array. Why is the first element empty?
by meanroy (Acolyte) on Aug 10, 2006 at 22:01 UTC |