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Re: [FWP] Obfuscated Perl AI (was Re: [FWP] a thought had while...)

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Subject: Re: [FWP] Obfuscated Perl AI (was Re: [FWP] a thought had while...)
From: Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:49:50 -0400
In-Reply-To: <19990701221038.C854@josstix.demon.co.uk>; from Adam Sampson on Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 10:10:38PM +0100
References: <19990701221038.C854@josstix.demon.co.uk>

On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 10:10:38PM +0100, Adam Sampson wrote:
> But how come you can say 
> 	.=$".
> for
> 	.=' '.
> but not
> 	split$", 
> for
> 	split' ',
> (having tried both)?

split ' ' is magic; it requires a constant string for the magic to happen.
$" contains ' ' by default, but it's not constant, so no magic.
(I tried both too. :)

Ronald

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References:
- Re: [FWP] Obfuscated Perl AI (was Re: [FWP] a thought had while...)
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