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jdporter
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To me that means that ...
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No. Don't extrapolate from what the doc says. [doc://split|It] says a <i>special case</i> is
"when the PATTERN is either omitted or a literal string composed of a <b>single space character</b>
(such as <c>' '</c> or <c>"\x20"</c>)"
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<c>'.'</c> is not a space character.
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