summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorYitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>2004-07-14 03:19:36 -0700
committerNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2004-07-14 17:44:08 +0000
commitab7ee80f77caf2fe052e7d3d8de31097ada2baae (patch)
tree47927137a563229adfc4db34aec27590b5dcf058
parent0bdaccee393e6b53324e029b6bf5b646d5d93331 (diff)
downloadperl-ab7ee80f77caf2fe052e7d3d8de31097ada2baae.tar.gz
split doc clarification
Message-Id: <20040714171936.GA1092@efn.org> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23107
-rw-r--r--pod/perlfunc.pod2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index b918cac80c..ed4077acc3 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -4986,7 +4986,7 @@ Example, assuming array lengths are passed before arrays:
Splits the string EXPR into a list of strings and returns that list. By
default, empty leading fields are preserved, and empty trailing ones are
-deleted.
+deleted. (If all fields are empty, they are considered to be trailing.)
In scalar context, returns the number of fields found and splits into
the C<@_> array. Use of split in scalar context is deprecated, however,