in reply to Splitting a string... Duh?

Presumably it's because you are trying to split and put the results into a scalar context.
So you might want to do something like: 
$cnID = ( split("/", $serverID) )[0];
print $cnID"\n";

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(Untested, but should do it...)

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Re: Answer: Splitting a string... Duh?
by Preceptor (Deacon) on Sep 16, 2002 at 16:24 UTC
    Oops, I typoed the print.
    use strict;
my $cnID= (split("/", $serverID))[0];
print "$cnID\n";

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    As a hint, using strict would have indicated that something was wrong with this line.
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