>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> Well, all I know is that, in my experience, joining things
Michael> with an empty regex can introduce extra characters. For
Michael> instance:
Michael> @array = qw(a apple b banana);
Michael> $scalar = join(//,@array);
Uh, the first parameter to join is *never* a regex. What difference
could it ever possibly make to make it a regex?
perldoc -f join
join EXPR,LIST
Joins the separate strings of LIST into a single string with
fields separated by the value of EXPR, and returns that new
string. Example:
$rec = join(':', $login,$passwd,$uid,$gid,$gcos,$home,$shell);
See the split entry elsewhere in this document.
Michael> From that, $scalar is assigned to 'a1apple1b1banana', not
Michael> 'aapplebbanana' The way I get around this is to replace //
Michael> with "". (i.e. join("",@array);)
That's not "getting around it". THat's "using it as it was intended".
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