On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:01:59PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:03:55PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > : I think that the above split should generate a list like this: > : > : ('', [ '12','34','56','78','90']) > > Yes, though I would think of it more generally as > > ('', $0, '', $0, '', $0, ...) > > where in this case it just happens to be > > ('', $0) > > and $0 expands to ['12','34','56','78','90'] if you treat it as an array.
Exactly so. Principle of least surprise wins again! ;) -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]