From: Tony Bowden <tony@kasei.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:49:35 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: PATCH: tweak 'split' docs for case of explicit 0 LIMIT
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PATCH: tweak 'split' docs for case of explicit 0 LIMIT
Message-ID: <20030717154935.GA20302@soto.kasei.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20162
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 612b9cd..4010d4e 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -4865,8 +4865,8 @@ The LIMIT parameter can be used to split a line partially
 
     ($login, $passwd, $remainder) = split(/:/, $_, 3);
 
-When assigning to a list, if LIMIT is omitted, Perl supplies a LIMIT
-one larger than the number of variables in the list, to avoid
+When assigning to a list, if LIMIT is omitted, or zero, Perl supplies
+a LIMIT one larger than the number of variables in the list, to avoid
 unnecessary work.  For the list above LIMIT would have been 4 by
 default.  In time critical applications it behooves you not to split
 into more fields than you really need.