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From:
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Date:
July 11, 2009 22:42
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] Remove implicit split to @_
Message ID:
65342.97.113.117.246.1247377349.squirrel@webmail.efn.org
On Fri, July 10, 2009 11:11 pm, Offer Kaye wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>> Already there, http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/split.html:
>>
>> split /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT...If LIMIT is specified and positive, it
>> represents the maximum number of fields the EXPR will be split
>> into...If LIMIT is negative, it is treated as if an arbitrarily large
>> LIMIT had been
>> specified...When assigning to a list, if LIMIT is omitted, or zero, Perl
>>  supplies a LIMIT one larger than the number of variables in the list
>>
>> although I'm not quite certain what the "this" you meant is.
>
> Probably the fact that the line without the limit returns "1" instead
> of the count, even though the documentation seems to imply both lines
> should have worked the same in this case. At least as far as I understood
> them.

"When assigning to a list, if LIMIT is omitted, or zero, Perl
supplies a LIMIT one larger than the number of variables in the list"



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