Re: [MacPerl] split oddity

[Chris Sansom <chris@highway57.co.uk>]

At 11:48 -0800 7/3/99, Brian L. Matthews spoke thusly:
>#!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-
>
>Comments, confirmations?

Yep. If you replace undef with $junk you get what you expected.

 Cheers ... Chris
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