[perl #63970] split() returns the delimiter, not the substrings

[Gabor Szabo]

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perl6 -e'say "a;b".split(";").perl'
["a", "b"]

but

perl6 -e'say split("a;b", ";")'
;

Gabor

[Moritz Lenz]

In the sub form the delimiter still goes first (like in Perl 5), so it
tries to split ';' by 'a;b', fails, and thus returns the whole string is
one chunk. Works as designed.

Cheers,
Moritz

[Gabor Szabo]

and I even reported it as a bug

how embarrassing

I blame the hour.

Gabor