Question: Per the manual: <http://php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.phptags.php>

I'm trying to learn some various MVC's and frameworks (namely Backbone.js at the moment) and the pages the frameworks use are .html files and a code snippet would be listed as:
 <%- title %>
(Source: <https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/examples/backbone/index.html>)

Does this mean the frameworks won't work if my server has PHP 7? I realize I could go ahead and just try it this individual time but I'm wondering...in general...does PHP 7 think the <% tags are ASP only and such not allow them?

Answer: 
The problem is that you are not using the return value of `split`. `str.split` does not modify a string in place (strings are actually immutable), but *returns* a list.

Demo: 

```
>>> answer = '30 7'
>>> answer_split = answer.split(' ')
>>> answer
'30 7'
>>> answer_split
['30', '7']
>>> answer_split[0]
'30'
>>> answer_split[1]
'7'

```

In case you want actual integers, you can do:

```
>>> answer_split = [int(x) for x in answer.split(' ')]
>>> answer_split
[30, 7]

```

I am not exactly sure why you are indexing into `player` instead of the result of `split` when appending to `playerAnswer`, so that is likely another bug.

Note: if you just want to split by any whitespace, you can omit the argument `' '` to `split`.
```
a, b = [int(i) for i in answer.split()]
>>> a
30
>>> b
7

```

Or, if you really want text:

```
playerAnswer = []
playerAnswer.append(tuple(i for i in answer.split()))

>>> playerAnswer
[('30', '9')]

```