On Fri, 6 Oct 2000 23:26:44 -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> @foo = split;
> # BECOMES
> @foo = split; pop @foo until $foo[-1];
That doesn't fly. What if that last field is "0"?
> @foo = split ' ';
> # BECOMES
> @foo = split /\s+/; shift @foo;
What if th
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:59:31AM -0600, Sean M. Burke wrote:
> The current behavior makes trailing empty fields non-existent, and that's a
> bizarre and nonintuitive thing to have be a default; if your code relies on
> them being removed, then remove them explicitly, without expecting split to
>
>Sean M. Burke wrote:
>>
>> The current behavior makes trailing empty fields non-existent, and that's a
>> bizarre and nonintuitive thing to have be a default;
>Only to some people; and besides, it's well documented.
Well, Sean is right in that it is very bizarre to many people.
I know that whe
> "PRL" == Perl6 RFC Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PRL> =item 2. Empty trailing fields are currently suppressed (although a
PRL> -1 as the third argument disables this). I suggest that empty trailing
PRL> fields be retained by default.
Extremely useful, I rely on this. It makes non-
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 11:18:58 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> my @a = split /:/, "", -1;
Oops. that should be
my @a = split /:/, $_, -1;
--
Bart.
On 1 Oct 2000 06:40:08 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>Perl 5 split does five things that I think are just annoying, and
>which I suggest be removed:
I've got one more problem.
for my $i (0 .. 4) {
$_ = ':' x $i;
my @a = split /:/, "", -1;
my $coun
