Re: -F vs split

[Robert Citek]

On Aug 25, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Robert Citek wrote:
Why do these two commands not produce the same output?
$ perl -le 'print join("--", split(/: /, "a: b"))'
a--b

$ echo 'a: b' | perl -F'/: /' -lane 'print join("--", @F)'
a: b

From reading 'perldoc perlrun' the -F option should behave just  
like the pattern to split.  What am I missing?

Forgot to mention this is on OS X (perl 5.8.6), FC4 Linux (perl  
5.8.6), and Ubuntu 6.06 (perl 5.8.7).

Regards,
- Robert
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