From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2004-12-07T04:27:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd

On Dec 6, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Simon Strandgaard wrote:

> However Perl has a bad split.
>
> $size = split(/\n/, "");
> print "size is $size";         #  ->  0

Perl's split() works as you described above.  You just need to call it 
in "list context":

@arr = split /\n/, "";
# ...

James