Your code groups multiple tabs together because you told it to. /\t+/ says to use 1 or more tabs to split on. If you want to split on a single tab, then use a single tab: /\t/. Also note, that by default, trailing empty fields are discarded. You can avoid this by using the 3 argument version of split.

Also, when you have multiple scalars named something like $foo1, $foo2, $foo3, etc, that is usually a sign that you want an array. Something like: 

@values = split /\t/, $line, -1;

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In reply to Re: Tab delimited code problem? by Paladin
in thread Tab delimited code problem? by WebmastTroy

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