I am having a strange problem while using the Crypt::CBC module. First i wrote a simple test script that encodes and decodes using Crypt::CBC and 'Blowfish'. I encrypted a file and then decrypted the encrypted file. The resulting file was the same as the original file. I then wrote another version of my test script which attempted to decrypt a file and then use the "split" function to break the decrypted data into an array of lines. Although all the data was correctly decrypted, the split function only generated 1 line, not the correct number of lines. Here is the relevant code lines.

use strict;
use warnings;
use Crypt::CBC;

my $cipher;

$cipher = Crypt::CBC->new(
    -key    => $secret_key,
    -cipher => 'Blowfish'
);
    local $/;
    unless ( open(INPUT,"<$filename") ) {
        die("open failed for file '$filename' : $!\n");
    } # UNLESS
    $data = <INPUT>;
    close(INPUT);
    $decrypted = $cipher->decrypt($data);
@lines = split(/\r\n/,$decrypted);
$num_lines = split(/\r\n/,$decrypted);
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When I ran the script, the data was correctly decrypted, however the split() function only generated one big line. Why did I not get the correct number of lines ? I am running on a windows 7 laptop using perl 5.16.3

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