Re: [MacPerl] Perl book..

[nghai <nghai@didi.com>]

>At 07.17 1998.03.14, Amitava Basu wrote:
>>$position = index($input,'');
>                          ^^
>As Dick said, that should be a space, not a null.
>
>>please type something: Chris, that was a nice book you wrote. Thanks
>
>>The first word "Chris" did not show up. Can you be of some help
>>and correct my mistake.
>
>The other mistake is that it should be Vicki and Chris.  :-)

Would it had been clearer and less prone to mistakes to do:

  $position = index($input,"\s");

which unfortunately would include lf, returns and tabs or:

  $position = index($input,"\x20");

which would explicitly specify a space.

-
nghai

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