I think that I found a strange exception in the split function, and was wondering if someone can tell me why this happens. Basically, I have a very simple split finction: 
($acc_num, $ofname,$junk,$olname,$junk2) = split /|/, $line, 5;

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to split up a pipe delimited list. Like this: 
AccountKey|Given|MiddleName1|Surname|GeoCity

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Instead of the expected results, I get the result of having each variable in the array being one digit of the AccountKey. I have never seen this before and understand that I can sub commas for pipes rather quickly, but I was hoping to see if anyone knew why pipes are so special in this context.
Thanks,
cens

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