Split function broken in Perl 5.8.8

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Oct 4, 2007, at 6:29 PM, Eric Tiffany wrote:

> The split function fails to work properly on MacOS 10.4.10, either  
> using the
> builtin perl (v5.8.6) or v5.8.8 from the MacPorts project.
>
> For example, running this command
>
> perl -e 'print join(":", split(/ */, "hi there"));'
>
> produces no output on MacOS, but produces
>

Watch your prompt and newlines; try

$ perl -e 'print join(":", split(/ */, "hi there")) . "\n";'

instead to make sure there's a newline at the end.

Bryan


> h:i:t:h:e:r:e
>
> as expected with perl v5.8.8 on Ubuntu 7.04
>
> I could create a simpler example, but this is sort of canonical, and
> it's in the documentation for the split function.
>
> I submitted this problem via perlbug, but I suspect they will throw  
> up their
> hands at a Mac version of perl.  So I'm sending it here, too.   
> Apologies if
> this issue is known, but there is no search capability in the  
> worthless
> mailman program that runs the macports lists.
>
> ET
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