On 2008.04.08, Bahr, Michael <mbahr@[...].gov>  wrote:
>  > 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.
>  > 
>  
>  I see these two strings as the same because I **see** a carriage return
>  immediately after the comma (delimiter).   This indicates to me that
>  there **may be** another field but there is not.

Wow, Perl has deformed your sense of appropriate reality in sad ways.
:-)

What's the difference between these two arrays:

    ("a", "b", "c", "")  and  ("a", "b", "c")

Not being able to tell the difference programatically is a bug in the
programming language, not a feature.


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