perldoc -f split

split /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT
split /PATTERN/,EXPR
split /PATTERN/
split

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.
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