From: tsawyer@...
Date: 2004-12-07T05:27:37+09:00
Subject: Re: String#split behaves odd


James Edward Gray II wrote:
> 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/, "";
> # ...

Try

@arr = split /\n/, -1;

Which I think should be defualt behavior.

T.