On May 31, Brian Shoemaker said:
>($id,$dir,$code,$etc) = split(/\|/,$i);
>
>However, the Perl 5 book I have lists the syntax of split as.....
>
>lvalue = split(/pattern/,expression,maxSplit);
Perl can automatically add that argument if you have a known number of
elements on the left-hand side:
# this does NOT produce a list of 10 elements, and take 2 of them
($x, $y) = split /:/, "a:b:c:d:e:f:g:h:i:j:k";
# that gets optimized to
($x, $y) = split /:/, "a:b:c:d:e:f:g:h:i:j:k", 3;
So no, you don't need to make any modifications -- Perl does that for you
already.
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