I think you need to show more of the code. Here is what I get with your three examples:

$ echo "foo        
> bar
> baz
> " | perl -e 'my @a = <STDIN>; print @a'
foo
bar
baz

$ echo "foo
> bar
> baz
> " | perl -e 'my @a = <STDIN>; print "\n @a"'

 foo
 bar
 baz
 
$ echo "foo
> bar
> baz
> " | perl -e 'my @a = <STDIN>; chomp(@a); print @a'
foobarbaz$

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Do you do other manipulations of STDIN?

Update: Hmmmm, that is strange. I think chromatic's suggestion of something funny in the input file is likely. Also, do you (maybe in some init file) set $[=1; to get one-based indexing? That doesn't seem likely, but this is a puzzler.

After Compline,
Zaxo

In reply to Re: Line input clipped from my array? by Zaxo
in thread Line input clipped from my array? by jerrygarciuh

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