Thanks very much - I has completely missed whitespace before the slash. John
> -----Original Message----- > From: Timothy Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 March 2006 14:41 > To: John Bruin; beginners@perl.org > Subject: RE: Splitting on white space > > > It isn't splitting on the 'two three' because it doesn't match. > > / \s{1,}/ matches a space followed by one or more whitespace > characters (you have a space in front of your \s) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Bruin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 5:37 PM > To: beginners@perl.org > Subject: Splitting on white space > > Can anyone please tell me why the code below is not splitting the 'two > three'? > > <snip> > > my $string = 'one two three four'; > my @temp = split(/ \s{1,}/,$string); > > > <snip> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
