pass me another split, sergeant, this one's elfed

[perlmonger]

[Poll #1119627]

[ ETA that this is an abstract question, not an invitation for a language war, though go ahead and have one if you must ]

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[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

Depends how fascist you're feeling. Quick'n'dirty script languages - an arrey of empty strings; neo-nazi - an exception.

I'm a Unix pragmatist though - SIGSEGV will do nicely ;)