Re^2: Different behaviour in characters in string vs. array?

Yes, I know about UTF-8 (and also about 'encoding') - I'm sorry I didn't say it like this. I would like to know why it is different between string and list. That is confusing to me.

Comment on Re^2: Different behaviour in characters in string vs. array?

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^3: Different behaviour in characters in string vs. array? by ccn (Vicar) on Dec 10, 2008 at 22:35 UTC
perldoc -f split A pattern matching the null string (not to be confused with a null pattern // , which is just one member of the set of patterns matching a null string) will split the value of EXPR into separate characters at each point it matches that way. The characters are one byte length unless you specify utf8 encoding, so split splits every double byte russian charachter to a couple ASCII characters.	[reply]
Re^3: Different behaviour in characters in string vs. array? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 10, 2008 at 22:37 UTC
I would like to know why it is different between string and list `qw()` does `split ' '` (separates words), not `split //` (separates characters). Had you used the former, you would have gotten the same result. You might think those two are the same in this case, but they're not because of the bug I indentified.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Different behaviour in characters in string vs. array? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 10, 2008 at 23:27 UTC
Ah! Now I understand. Thank you very much, ccn and ikegami!	[reply]

Ah! Now I understand. Thank you very much, ccn and ikegami!