It's not a dumb question at all, and I ran in to the same problem once. I was splitting HTML text and pulled my hair out for a while trying to figure out why it wasn't putting the slurped text in to an array using @text=split(/\n/, $slurp;

The problem seems to stem from the differences between Unix and Windows ( and possibly the Mac too, I'm not sure ) and how they write newlines to a file.

I solved the problem by splitting on \r or \r\n or \n, depending on how the newlines were written in the file.

Hope that helps!

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In reply to Re: dumb split question by Popcorn Dave
in thread dumb split question by Anonymous Monk

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