Jeff already clarified, but we Jeffs like to be repetitive and pedantic ...

Bahr, Michael wrote:
>  Now Perl has been around for over 30 years and I have been

Exaggerating is fine, but remember it's only been around 1 year longer 
than Tcl (so I guess Tcl's been around 29 years ...).

>  programming in Perl for over 13 years and use it as a standard for
>  these things.  Perl's split returns 8 strings as expected as above.

That is a grave mistake on so many levels ;).

>  So can someone please explain why Tcl's split "sees" an empty string
>  at the end of the line?  I do not think this is normal behavior.

Indeed, as Jeff noted, how do you tell the difference between:

	split a,b,c, ","
and	split a,b,c  ","

This is a very important distinction, one that Tcl won't trip you up 
over.  You can actually get Perl to do the same, it's just the default 
will strip trailing empties.

Jeff
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