From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:19:36 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: split doc clarification
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split doc clarification
Message-Id:  <20040714171936.GA1092@efn.org>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23107
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index b918cac..ed4077a 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -4986,7 +4986,7 @@ Example, assuming array lengths are passed before arrays:
 
 Splits the string EXPR into a list of strings and returns that list.  By
 default, empty leading fields are preserved, and empty trailing ones are
-deleted.
+deleted.  (If all fields are empty, they are considered to be trailing.)
 
 In scalar context, returns the number of fields found and splits into
 the C<@_> array.  Use of split in scalar context is deprecated, however,