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

[almut]

split /\.*/ results in you only checking the first character of every line and the ones after periods

What you describe would happen with /\.+/  — as long as there are no periods, /\.*/ does split up individual characters just like //.   (Not saying that it should be used here, though...)

[Thelonius]

> 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