>>>>> "JWK" == John W Krahn <jwkr...@shaw.ca> writes:

  JWK> Uri Guttman wrote:
  >>>>>>> "HP" == Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes:
  >> 
  HP> elems1 ( `split(/(\d\d)/,100421)' ):
  HP> has these elements:
  HP> I'm an element -> <>
  >> 
  >> that is because there is always a leading null string between the start
  JWK>                           ^^^^^^^^
  JWK> ITYM:  almost always

  >> and a leading delimiter (which is 2 digits).

  JWK> :-)

well, i said i didn't want to get into edge cases! split has several
issues that need to be understood but not memorized. :)

uri

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