$/ is the end of record seperator. It defaults to "\n".

What my code, which is in essence

my @list=split /\n/,do {local $/; <$fh>};
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my @list=<$fh>;
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I hope you didnt do it naively as otherwise youll only have one entry in the array, which will contain the whole file.

--- demerphq
my friends call me, usually because I'm late....

Thanks again,
I modified my code to


local $/;
open my $fh, "xml.log";
my $line = <$fh>;
close ($fh);
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Now I have the whole file in $line and I extract all the data which I want from regular expressions. My code is working as expected and is very very fast.

regards,
Abhishek.