Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-05 at 15:15 -0700, chen li wrote:
>>Both line codes work perfectly:
>>
>>my @new_array = map { split } @arry;
>>or 
>>my @new_array = split ' ', "@arry";
> 
> The second statement will work perfectly if every element has only one
> space character separating its components and has no leading or trailing
> spaces. A more general case would be to to split on whitespace:
> 
>   my @new_array = split /\s+/, "@arry";
> 
> See `perldoc perlretut` and `perldoc perlre` for details.

Did you actually try it?  I didn't think so.

$ perl -le'
my $string = q[  a  b  c  d  ];
print join "\t", map "<$_>", split " ", $string;
print join "\t", map "<$_>", split / /, $string;
print join "\t", map "<$_>", split /\s+/, $string;
'
<a>     <b>     <c>     <d>
<>      <>      <a>     <>      <b>     <>      <c>     <>      <d>
<>      <a>     <b>     <c>     <d>



John
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