TJP: Your split is highly commendable -- because you considered the possibility that a user, entering two numbers on a single line might separate them with a space; a comma; or both. ++.

However, you may have heard the (boastful) observation "Perl makes hard things, easy." It seems to me you've done the reverse (or at least, unnecessarily complicated the code) by introducing the sub.

But how about keeping the code simple:

perl -e "my $inp = <>;@input = split /[\s,]+/, $inp; print \"$input[0] : $input[1]\";"

In reply to Re^2: Read two values from input by ww
in thread Read two values from input by knils_r00t

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