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Date: 2011jul7
Language: perl

Q.  How do I split a string into characters so I can look at each one?

A.  Use split() with // as the pattern.  For example:

	$str = 'hello';
	for $c (split(//,$str)) {
		print "c=$c\n";
	}

However, usually in perl its is better to use pattern matching to find
something in a string.

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