Re: [MacPerl] split oddity

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 14.48 -0500 1999.03.07, Brian L. Matthews wrote:
>Consider:
>
>#!perl
>$x = 'a,b,c,d,e,f';
>($a, undef, undef, $d, $e) = split /,/, $x;
>print "$a-$d-$e\n";
>
>What would you expect this to print? I expected:
>
>a-d-e
>
>and under perl5.004_04 on my ISP, that's what I get. However, under MacPerl
>5.2.0r4, which I *thought* was 5.004_04, I get:
>
>a-d,e,f-

Confirm problem here.  Note that this works for me:

#!perl
$x = 'a,b,c,d,e,f';
($a, undef, undef, $d, $e, $f, $g) = split /,/, $x;
print "$a-$d-$e\n";

If I were to investigate further, I would look at the changelog for
5.004_0[1-4], since MacPerl is at 5.004, not 5.004_04.  I would expect to
see this as a fixed bug in one of the four maintenance revisions.

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