Oops. Duly noted. Functions/Subs return lists, not arrays. But then again, grep() takes a list, and not an array :)
Arrays can be set from lists and arrays get converted to lists all the time. Is there any practical difference? (Other than the fact that an array has a reference which can be passed as a scalar?) Sample code to go along with my previous answer: my $str = 'abc,123,,bob'; my @arr = split ',', $str; print scalar @arr, " items\n"; # 4 @arr = grep !/^$/, @arr; print scalar @arr, " items\n"; # 3 @arr = grep !/^$/, split ',', $str; print scalar @arr, " items\n"; # 3 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
