Jeff Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On May 31, Pedro A Reche Gallardo said:
>
> >How can I split a string of caracters -any but blank spaces- into
> >the individual caracters?
>
> So you want to split "what's up, doc?" into
>
> @chars = qw( w h a t ' s u p , d o c ? );
>
> That is, every character except spaces?
>
> First, remove spaces from the string:
>
> $string =~ tr/\n\r\f\t //d; # translate whitespace to nothing
>
> Then, split the string into characters:
>
> @chars = split //, $string;
Or, you could do it in one step:
@chars = split /\s*/, $string;
Which splits on any number (including zero) of whitespace characters,
throwing away the characters that match.
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Piers Cawley
www.iterative-software.com
