perl split whitespace

Feb 26, 2009 • {"display_name"=>"Marcus Puchalla", "login"=>"admin", "email"=>"cb0@0xcb0.com", "url"=>""}

$text="  a b c d  e";

@list=split(/ /,$text);
results in
(,,a,b,c,d,,e,)

@list=split ' ',$text;
results in
(a,b,c,d,e,)