I don't know why the first few cases are messed up. The last case is correct, though. You asked it to split the string on the delimiter 'monkey'. That means the first part is "my " and the second part is "\n".

Try splitting on the delimiter ' '. You also might want to chomp somewhere in there. (I don't remember if chomping is done for you with some cmd-line switch.) :-)

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