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Re: [MacPerl] Merging elements
At 16:39 -0400 10/13/00, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>split(' ', $in) is not a simple split. It is actually the same as
>split(/\s+/, $in), except that split(' ', $in) will discard a leading null
>field. This is a special feature of split, perfect for just this case.
Except in the presence of tabs in $in, in which case ' ' and \s+ are rather
different split patterns.
I came in late, so I don't know whether tabs were excluded in the problem
statement.
--John
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John Baxter jwblist@olympus.net Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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