G'day Gtforce,

The statement "I receive an array" is vague. What precisely does that mean? Is it passed as an argument to a subroutine? Is it returned from a subroutine? Is it populated in the middle of some code (e.g. '@result = ...', 'push @result, ...', etc.)?

I'd suggest you take a step back and look at how @result is generated. There could be a bug upstream which, when fixed, resolves this, and any other, downstream problems.

I can really only speculate; however, purely as an example of one possible scenario, a change to $/, which hadn't been suitably localised, could cause this sort of situation.

Test data:

$ cat pm_1199549_test_file.txt
2017-08-01 20MICRONS 37744
2016-08-01 20MICRONS 25966
2016-04-20 20MICRONS 30807
2016-04-01 20MICRONS 32780

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Non-localised change (with respect to array population):

$ perl -e 'local $/; @x = <>; use Data::Dump; dd \@x' pm_1199549_test_
+file.txt
[
  "2017-08-01 20MICRONS 37744\n2016-08-01 20MICRONS 25966\n2016-04-20 
+20MICRONS 30807\n2016-04-01 20MICRONS 32780\n",
]

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Localised change (with respect to array population):

$ perl -e '{ local $/; } @x = <>; use Data::Dump; dd \@x' pm_1199549_t
+est_file.txt
[
  "2017-08-01 20MICRONS 37744\n",
  "2016-08-01 20MICRONS 25966\n",
  "2016-04-20 20MICRONS 30807\n",
  "2016-04-01 20MICRONS 32780\n",
]

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If you provide us with more information, we can probably offer better advice.

— Ken

In reply to Re: Unscalar'ize a fake array by kcott
in thread Unscalar'ize a fake array by Gtforce

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