Re: offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

[Brad <lists@anomie.dhis.org>]

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On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Olaf Conradi wrote:

> Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated at ./dialog.pl line 34.
> 
>     $message_len = split(/^/, $message);        # <-- line 34

split always splits to an array. Here, you're trying to get the number of
elements generated by the split call, so it implicitly splits to the @_
array. This is depreciated.

One way to get the same effect would be to use the s/// funtion something
like this:
    $message_len = $message=~s/^/^/mog;

There may be other ways. Those other ways may even be better.


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