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Re: Mistakenly Believing split is using @_

by lemming (Priest)
on Sep 19, 2001 at 22:22 UTC ( [id://113432]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Mistakenly Believing split is using @_

From perldoc perlfunc:
In scalar context, returns the number of fields found and splits into the "@_" array. Use of split in scalar context is deprecated, however, because it clobbers your subroutine arguments.

It's preventing you from possibly shooting yourself in the foot.

For a better method, use the function length() to count the number of characters in a string.

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