SPUG: a split question . . .

[Dean Hudson]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Patterson, David S (David) wrote:

> This is a really cool trick!  I can't believe I've never seen it before
> now...  I had to go back to the blue camel book (Programming Perl, Wall &
> Schwartz) and find it before I could believe it.  It's actually documented
> on pg 48, but in a rather academic way--the example never mentions the
> beauty of using it in something like split.  It just proves that you can
> never completely "learn" a language.  People are always finding new ways to
> use the tools in any toolbox...

It's also really handy with stat() and any of the getpwyada() builtins;
they often return a mess of data that you're not interested in.

dean.
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