Hello monks. I'm using split to handle tabulated files. Rows have simple syntax 
Name	number	number	number
Name	number	number	number
...
Now the number fields can be empty so basicly i have some rows which have only name and tabs. I've noticed that split does not return empty cells properly. There is a bit about using pattern " ", it will skip leading whitespace. but that should not apply here. I've added a simple script which shows the problem.
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# testing split
#
use warnings;
use strict;

my $a="val                ";
print "'$a'\n";
my @a=split (/\t/,$a);
my $val=scalar (@a);
print "$val '@a'\n";

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UPDATE:
I've created 3 as a result of browser fumbling on my part, can there extra 2 be remove please. And how can i do this myself?

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