Your uses of the split and  m// built-in functions in this and related posts have a strong flavor of "elephants to catch eels" about them. Consider the following code, which operates on a test string containing embedded newlines because you seem to be using paragrep mode, implying such newlines: 

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -le
"$_ = qq{abc\ndef\nghi};
 my @ra = split /(.+)/;
 dd \@ra;
 ;;
 @ra = /^(.+)/;
 dd \@ra;
"
["", "abc", "\n", "def", "\n", "ghi"]

["abc"]

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Do you feel you have a fairly good grasp of what is happening in these examples? If not, time and effort invested in gaining such understanding is likely to be generously repaid.

In reply to Re^2: split paragraph by AnomalousMonk
in thread split paragraph by james28909

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