2007/9/11, Pavanvithal Torvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I wanted to ask others if this is expected behaviour. Yes.
> If I make use of this feature will it cause compatibility issues with the > later versions of perl. > Please don't use $a and $b as variable names,they are built-in variables used by `sort` function.see `perldoc -f sort`. Also your codes could be re-written simply, my $x = "one/two/three/four/five"; my ($c,$d,$e,$f,$g) = split/\//,$x; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/