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Re^2: Why does split on /./ not split the string?by ChemBoy (Priest) |
on Dec 07, 2005 at 18:55 UTC ( [id://514975]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Just to expand on this theme a bit, you can get those empty fields returned if you really want them, by passing -1 as the third argument to split: split /./,'abcde',-1 will dutifully return six empty strings. (Cases with values other than -1 are left as an exercise to the extremely bored.) Of course, there are probably faster ways to count the characters in your string, but that's a side issue. :-) If God had meant us to fly, he would *never* have given us the railroads. --Michael Flanders
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