On Dec 4, 2:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Dixon) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > As it happens, even if there was a '.' as the last character in your > > input string then you'd still get the same message. This is counter- > > intuitive but is documented in the documentation of the split() > > function. > > No. > > my @list = split /\./, '1000.'; > > will indeed generate only one value, but split() will omit trailing null > fields only if the number of fields is defaulted. In this case the > call is > > my ($n,$d) = split /\./, shift, 2; Think I need my eyesight tested. I just completely didn't see that 2 in there. Last night I walked into a room and completely failed to see a kettle that was right in front of me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
