Yes, that occurred to me later.

Still, to follow the Principle of Least Astonishment, I'd like to be able to specify a regex. To avoid further if then's, I'd probably set the default like so: 

my $sep = q/' '/;
$sep = shift @ARGV if @ARGV; # you get the idea
my $line = "   one two three   \n";
my @words = eval qq(split $sep, \$line);

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Then something evaluating to a regex must be used, such as: 

$sep = q(/\s+/);
$sep = q(//);
$sep = q(/two|\s+/);
$sep = q(m|/|);

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But the delimiters must be part of the string.

(I'm ignoring for now the security issue of letting the user specify a regex, as this is a script just for me. And I'm not up to untainting the full regex language, so I can't see letting this into the wild hands of colleagues.)

-QM
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In reply to Re^2: How to get split $var to work like split ' '? by QM
in thread How to get split $var to work like split ' '? by QM

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