LPM: regexp question

[Rich Bowen]

llang at baywestpaper.com wrote:
> 
...
> I've been playing with the numeric as the third argument to  split  because
> I've never seen it before.  My book has no mention of it.  (Guess I need a
> bigger book  ;-)  )
> 
>        $sent="This is a test of the first five words.";
>        @s=split(/ /,$sent,5);
>        foreach (@s) {print;print"\n";}
> 
> yields
> 
>        This
>        is
>        a
>        test
>        of the first five words.
> 
> The fifth element has everything from that point on.  (Might be a Win32-ism
> versus other platforms, but I can't see why...)
> So it should be pretty quick to change it to 6 and pop the last one off, no
> matter what the size of $sent.  Or am I shootin' blanks?

Bah. That's what I get for not testing code before I send it out.
No, that's right. It should be changed to 6. The argument basically
means 'split it into this many pieces'.

Rich
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