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Perl's versatile split function

Oct 24, 2014 by David Farrell

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Write elegant, simple code with split

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How to read a string into an array of characters using split

Oct 3, 2013 by David Farrell

development
string
array
split

Perl’s split function has a useful feature that will split a string into characters. This works by supplying an empty regex pattern (“//”) to the split function. This can be used to easily split a word into an array of letters, for example:

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