Re: [FWP] duh: A small puzzler

[Brian "L." Matthews <blm@halcyon.com>]

John Porter writes:
|Jim Monty wrote:
|> By the way, the plus quantifier in this expression is superfluous:
|>     ($id) = split(/\s+/, $record);
|Only if, as in this case, there are no runs of whitespace longer
|than one.

However, if a single space is the column separator and columns can be
empty, then the + isn't just superfluous, it's wrong. Vicki didn't give
us enough information to say which is correct. Of course, she wasn't asking
about the split either...

Brian

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