Gabor Szabo (via RT) wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Gabor Szabo > # Please include the string: [perl #63970] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=63970 > > > > perl6 -e'say "a;b".split(";").perl' > ["a", "b"] > > but > > perl6 -e'say split("a;b", ";")' > ;
In the sub form the delimiter still goes first (like in Perl 5), so it tries to split ';' by 'a;b', fails, and thus returns the whole string is one chunk. Works as designed. Cheers, Moritz