in reply to Re^4: putting commas separated values into a new file line by line
in thread putting commas separated values into a new file line by line

You are 11 years behind. The /r needs 5.14, without it, you need to do
my $runTest = 'sydney,delhi,NY,Russia'; (my $lines = $runTest) =~ tr/,/\n/; print {$out} $lines;
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]