Re^3: Rogue Null (ordinate 0) characters in text files

[Thelonius]

in reply to Re^2: Rogue Null (ordinate 0) characters in text files
in thread Rogue Null (ordinate 0) characters in text files

> as long as there are no periods, /\.*/ does split up individual characters just like //. No, it doesn't.

@c = split /\.+/, "abcdefg";
@d = split /\.+/, "ab.c.....defg";

results in @c having one element, "abcdefg", and @d having 3 elemnts, "ab", "c", and "defg".

[almut]

Well, you're using /\.+/, not /\.*/  :)

my $s = "abcdefg";

my @c = split /\.*/, $s;
print '/\.*/: ', join("-", @c), "\n";

my @d = split //, $s;
print '//:    ', join("-", @d), "\n";

__END__
/\.*/: a-b-c-d-e-f-g
//:    a-b-c-d-e-f-g