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Re: My problems to understand the Perl documentationby Anonymous Monk |
on Aug 26, 2020 at 14:42 UTC ( [id://11121103]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Part of the reason for the behavior of split goes back to Perl's original inception as a successor to awk. There are many anachronisms and inconsistencies throughout the language but each one is there for a purpose. "There's more than one way to do it."
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