When using RedHat Linux version 9, I (for the first time) started getting Unexpected End-Of-String messages from PERL when using PERL's split() function. I suspect (though I am not sure) that this is because RedHat 9 uses PERL 5.8 (while other systems, even some that were relased later use PERL 5.6.1.

I find this "feature" to be very problematic, because when I call split(), I'm not asking it for it's opinion on whether or not the strintg is terminated in the manner it expects - I'm just asking it to split the string according to the specified pattern, and I *need* for it to do it's job without complaining.

My question is this: Is this new behavior something I'm going to have to get used to with PERL? And if so, how can I do things that I used to rely on the split() function for?

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