Ahh! The lights come on! (Then they go dim again) I changed the 
        $fname =~ s/^\s+(.+?)\W*$/$1/;

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to 
        $fname =~ s/^\s*(.+?)\W*$/$1/;

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and the problem went away. (Of course it did. I should have seen that.) I can see why with the '+' it didn't work right, but why would the failure manifest as a CR at the end of $fname?
But I am perplexed about the split itself. I replaced the (",") with (",\s*") and got the error: 
Unrecognized escape \s passed through at phonelist.pl line 28.

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The paren/quote format worked fine with just a comma but broke with the addition of the space char class. Did I just get lucky the first way?

As to the LIMIT option, my Llama book doesn't explain it. Does the 2 relate the expectation of having two char within the match?

-Theo-
(so many nodes and so little time ... )

In reply to Re: Re: Need a better way to count input lines by Theo
in thread Need a better way to count input lines by Theo

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