Re: [MacPerl] STRING2LIST conversion

[Eric Folley <efolley@scsn.net>]

At 12:48 PM 01/27/96, luca.post@nettuno.it wrote:

>Is there a function to load a @list with string's characters as elements:
>
>                @list= func("anystring");
>
>returns $list[0]="a", .... $list[9]="g" ???
>
>I read getc must be avoided (SLOW!) ...

The function you want is split(); just split on nothing, e.g.:

        $string = "anystring";
        @list = split(//, $string);


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