split and @

keesturam has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks, After a gap I am resuming to learn perl. Can you please help me why using @ with split doesn't give desired output.

$input = "ab,cd,efghi,jkl";
@input = split(/,/,$input);
$len = @input;
print "$input[$len-1]"; # splits properly into 4

$input = "ab,cd,efghi,jkl";
@input = split(/@/,$input);
$len = @input;
print "$input[$len-1]"; # splits into 2!
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Is there anything special that I haven't read about using @?

Cheers!!

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