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in reply to Split fake, an emulation of split

I found an error in the documentation of split

No you didn't. As documented, trailing empty fields are only removed when the third operand is zero (the default).

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Re^2: Split fake, an emulation of split
by bojinlund (Monsignor) on Jul 31, 2020 at 14:59 UTC 
    use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;

# From https://perldoc.perl.org/5.30.1/functions/split.html:
# and each of these:

        print join(':', split(//, 'abc', 3)), "\n";
        print join(':', split(//, 'abc', 4)), "\n";

# produces the output a:b:c

__DATA__
Output:
a:b:c
a:b:c:

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      ah yes. You weren't very clear, so I misunderstood what you meant. That is indeed a documentation bug. Did you report it?

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        You weren't very clear I didnt read the thred
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Re^2: Split fake, an emulation of split
by jo37 (Deacon) on Jul 31, 2020 at 16:50 UTC

    If something behaves differently from its documentation, then it is either an implementation or a documentation error. The discrepancy between actual behaviour and documentation is a fact, as the example is taken straight from split.

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