On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Moritz Lenz <mor...@faui2k3.org> wrote: > 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.
and I even reported it as a bug how embarrassing I blame the hour. Gabor
