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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"Thread Previous | Thread Next