Re: split()'s pattern argument

Jerry Adair wrote:
to split(), it just so happens that the first line of data begins with a
space, followed by two "words" that are separated by whitespace. So the
list that I get back from split() has 3 elements in it

If all you want to do is split $_ on whitespace ignoring any leading
whitespace the you can simply say "split". Observe:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings; use strict;

$_ = ' foo bar ';
my @array = split;

print map {"'$_'\n"} @array;

__END__


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