How to use split on spaces AND tabs?

[nospam]

The following split command will perform the
split on one or more spaces. How can I perform
the split on one or more spaces AND tabs? Or
for that matter, ANY whitespace? This reads input
from a file, and you can't trust someone's text
editor to enter tabs or spaces!

my @arr = split(/ +/, $_, 2);
-Thanks

[Jürgen Exner]

nospam wrote:

Hi nospam

The following split command will perform the
split on one or more spaces.
The first argument to split() is a good old plain regular expression. To
find out more about regular expression please see The Fine Manual: "perldoc
perlre" or for an introduction "perldoc perlretut"
How can I perform
the split on one or more spaces AND tabs?
Just use a character class instead of the single space
/[ \t]+/
Details see The Fine Manual
Or
for that matter, ANY whitespace?
Did you Read The Fine Manual for the features you are using? Just use "\s""
\s Match a whitespace character

[...] my @arr = split(/ +/, $_, 2);

jue

[Joe Smith]

nospam wrote:

How can I perform
the split on one or more spaces AND tabs?
RTFM. It's mentioned where split() is documented.
my @arr = split(/ +/, $_, 2);

my @arr = split ' ',$_,2;