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