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in thread Rogue Null (ordinate 0) characters in text files

split /\.*/ results in you only checking the first character of every line and the ones after periods

What you describe would happen with /\.+/  — as long as there are no periods, /\.*/ does split up individual characters just like //.   (Not saying that it should be used here, though...)

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Re^3: Rogue Null (ordinate 0) characters in text files
by Thelonius (Priest) on May 08, 2008 at 01:14 UTC
    > as long as there are no periods, /\.*/ does split up individual characters just like //. No, it doesn't. 
    @c = split /\.+/, "abcdefg";
@d = split /\.+/, "ab.c.....defg";

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    results in @c having one element, "abcdefg", and @d having 3 elemnts, "ab", "c", and "defg".
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      Well, you're using /\.+/, not /\.*/  :) 

      my $s = "abcdefg";

my @c = split /\.*/, $s;
print '/\.*/: ', join("-", @c), "\n";

my @d = split //, $s;
print '//:    ', join("-", @d), "\n";

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/\.*/: a-b-c-d-e-f-g
//:    a-b-c-d-e-f-g

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