Could someone explain what's going on here?

my @trace = split("\s",(`traceroute -w 2 -q 1 -i dmfe0 $ip_address`));
my @trace_out = "";
        foreach (@trace){
                $_ =~ s/\n//;
                if ( $_ =~ /some|checks|here/ ){
                        @trace_out = (split /\s+/, $_ );
                }
        }

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and

open EXE, qq{/usr/sbin/traceroute -q 1 -w 2 -i dmfe0 $ip_address |};
my @trace = <EXE>;
my @trace_out = "";
        foreach (@trace){
                $_ =~ s/\n//;
                if ( $_ =~ /some|checks|here/ ){
                        @trace_out = (split /\s+/, $_ );
                }
        }

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Both work, however, when I use the first I have one server that apparently has hidden characters that would cause the the line to split prematurely. I expect the problem is in the split() in the foreach, but since the open EXE works just fine I'm going with that anyway. Just curious.

In reply to output difference between backtic and open(). by AltGrendel

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