in reply to Split a string with multiple trailing delimeters?

If you use the third split parameter it will do the trick. A value of 5 works for your example, but any value larger also works which is useful if you are not sure how many fields there are: 

print "'$_'" for split '[*]{2}', $s, 100;;
'123'
'abc'
''
''
''

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Re^2: Split a string with multiple trailing delimeters?
by Fletch (Bishop) on Jan 04, 2011 at 18:47 UTC

    Actually a negative limit works as an infinitely large value and you don't have to worry about that one edge case n years down the road that surpasses what you've chosen that usually is large enough.</nit>

    Quoth the docs for split:

    If LIMIT is negative, it is treated as if an arbitrarily large LIMIT had been specified.

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Re^2: Split a string with multiple trailing delimeters?
by haolecoder (Initiate) on Jan 04, 2011 at 18:57 UTC
    Using the third parameter worked. Thank you very much!
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