in reply to split ignores "fields"

The fine documentation has an example that uses split /someregex/, $string, -1 to preserve empty trailing fields.

If I understood your question correctly, that's what you are looking for.

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Re^2: split ignores "fields"
by conversecorollary (Novice) on Jun 09, 2011 at 13:44 UTC

    Thank You!

    Sometimes it just takes a swift kick to point out that which is stated in the docs, but is overlooked and did not register the first few times around.

    Again thank you very much!