On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Hugh Sasse wrote:
> What about calling it "split"? -- it is doing the same job as
> Perl's split(/:/,$_)[5], it seems to me.
Well, the Perl function splits up a string and returns a lot of pieces,
whereas this new operator extracts just a single piece. I'm not sure I
really like this. I think I'll leave it to Nigel.
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