The print "$line"; prints lines from the file, but the final print command just prints "1,,,,,,,,," Obviously my split isn't doing the job - can someone tell me why? Thanks 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $special ="/path/special.txt";
my ($P_N,$N__B,$N__G,$dry,$my,$by,$Dad,$gyrate,$curd);
my $count;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
open (PAGE, "$special")  or die "Can't open $special: $!";
flock (PAGE, 1) or die "Can't lock $special for reading";
while (defined (my $line = <PAGE>)) {print "$line<br>";
    $count++;
    $line = chomp ($line);
    ($P_N,$N__B,$N__G,$dry,$my,$by,$Dad,$gyrate,$curd) = split "\t",$l
+ine;

}

    print "$P_N,$N__B,$N__G,$dry,$my,$by,$Dad,$gyrate,$curd";

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