I've got a bit of an issue because in my fiddling with this thing, I over-wrote the file. I can get it back and try chomp(), but my regex should be even better? Here is more of the actual code... #lines were used in my testing... 
while (my $line = <IN>)
{
#  print "line=$line\n";
   next if $line =~/^\s*\w+:/;  # The Run_Time: line
   next if $line =~/^\s*$/;     # A blank line
   $line =~ s/\s*$//;           # No trailing spaces or line ending
   $line =~ s/^\s*//;           # No leading space
   next if $line =~ /^Call/;    # Skip the CSV header line
   
   
   my($call,$bracket) = (split /\|/,$line)[0,-1];
#   print "$call, $bracket\n";   #### nothing printed here either
   # more processing ... not shown..
}

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In reply to Re^2: Reading text file with <CR> line endings by Marshall
in thread Reading text file with <CR> line endings by Marshall

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