perl_learner wrote:
On May 7, 4:55 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gunnar Hjalmarsson) wrote:
perl_learner wrote:
On May 6, 10:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gunnar Hjalmarsson) wrote:
perl_learner wrote:
my @kits = $KIT_LIST;
How many elements do you think there are in @kits?
I have ~100 elements @kits. Why did you ask this question?
Because when you just said
my @kits = $KIT_LIST;
you had only one element in @kits.
my @kits = split ' ', $KIT_LIST;
Also with little change, "my @kits = split ' ', $KIT_LIST; ## added
an extra space to split"
I am getting the desired output.
The extra space should not make a difference, since split(' ') is a
special case that splits on all kinds of whitespace.
perldoc -f split
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my @kits = split ' ', $KIT_LIST;
The extra space had make a difference.....
Without extra space I was getting:
a a a . t . z a a a _ d . t . z b b b . t . z b b b _ d . t . z c c
c . t . z c c c _ d . t . z d d d . t . z e e e . t . z
With extra space I get the correct output: aaa.t.z aaa_d.t.z bbb.t.z
bbb_d.t.z ccc.t.z ccc_d.t.z ddd.t.z eee.t.z
Now it's getting confusing. "Extra" space - compared to what?
The correct format of this special split is
split ' ', EXPR
i.e. two quote characters with _one_ space character between them.
That's what I had initially suggested. When you said you added an extra
space, you were getting two quote characters with _two_ space characters
between them. As John pointed out, the latter is no longer the special
case format, and is simply interpreted by Perl as
split / /, EXPR
Maybe, in order to reduce the confusion, could you post the complete
final version of your code?
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