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Re: Empty strings after split /(\W)/

by Anonymous Monk
on Oct 01, 2014 at 20:44 UTC ( [id://1102587]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Empty strings after split /(\W)/

split does that when you put a capture group in the split expression.

$ perl -le 'print join "|", split /(\W)/, "Hello, World! ?";'
Hello|,|| |World|!|| ||?
$ perl -le 'print join "|", split /\W/, "Hello, World! ?";'
Hello||World

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