From @masak

<pmichaud> rakudo​: say 'hello-world'.split(/<ws>/).perl;
<polyglotbot> OUTPUT[["hello", "-", "world", ""]␤]
<pmichaud> that seems wrongish -- seems like there either should be a
"" at the front or no "" at the end.
<pmichaud> rakudo​: say 'hello-world'.split(/<wb>/).perl;
<polyglotbot> OUTPUT[["hello", "-", "world", ""]␤]
* pmichaud invites masak to submit a rakudobug. :-)
* masak submits

From @kyleha

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From @bbkr

On Kiev build​:

[11​:57] <bbkr> rakudo​: say 'a-b-c'.split(/<ws>/).perl; # doesn't look good
[11​:57] <p6eval> rakudo 36998b​: OUTPUT«("", "", "", "", "", "", Mu)␤»

From @coke

Output of these samples has changed​:

say 'hello-world'.split(/<ws>/).perl;
("", "hello", "-", "world", "")
say 'hello-world'.split(/<wb>/).perl;
("", "hello", "-", "world", "")
say 'a-b-c'.split(/<ws>/).perl;
("", "a", "-", "b", "-", "c", "")

--
Will "Coke" Coleda

From @moritz

tested in split.t

Cheers,
Moritz

@moritz - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'