Its not a split.....its a substitute. What this snippet is doing is removing anything that follows a colon and a dot.
Prachi. ----Original Message Follows---- From: pn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: colon(:) in split --- what does it mean ? Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:45:25 -0700 (PDT) I came across this snippet of code, in somebody's old code. ($cellname = $split_cellname) =~ s/:.*//; I would like to understand the usage of this statement in general, but in particular, i would like to know the significance of of the colon(:) character in the split function. Thanks PN __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
