Re (tilly) 5: Dynamic array names

I would subtract considerable points for missing the fact that you were breaking the spec of what was asked for in at least 3 different ways! OTOH anyone who came up with this would impress me:

my @data = map [/[^,\n]*/g], <CSV>;
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Now for shame, find at least 3 ways in which you broke the spec. (Having the wrong array name and the wrong filehandle don't count. I am looking for egregious data errors.)

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Re: Re (tilly) 5: Dynamic array names by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Feb 10, 2001 at 03:07 UTC
Had I been responding to you and not arturo (heh), I would have chomped the input data first, used a comma instead of a tab and a negative LIMIT argument to split to preserve trailing null fields. Did I miss anything else? I might also have used `/[^,\n]+/` in that map instead of a `*`, which introduces spurious empty fields by succeeding emptily upon encountering a delimiter.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re (tilly) 7: Dynamic array names by tilly (Archbishop) on Feb 10, 2001 at 04:18 UTC
You didn't stop soon enough. :-) You got it all, but you missed the point of the *. With a + you again lose the trailing null fields, which is why I put it in in the snippet...	[reply]