On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:53:06PM +0200, "TSa (Thomas Sandlaï)" wrote:Autrijus Tang wrote:
pugs> split /(..)*/, 1234567890 ('', '12', '34', '56', '78', '90')
Is this sane?
Why the empty string match at the start?
I don't know, I didn't invent that! :-)
$ perl -le 'print join ",", split /(..)/, 123' ,12,3
This makes sense when I think about what split is doing, but it is surprising at first glance. Perhaps this should be included as an example in the docs?
--Dks
