Dear Monks
I'm playing with S Cozen's Finance::QIF module and it contains the code
sub parse_file {
    my ($class, $file) = @_;
    local $/; open my $f, $file or croak $!; my $data = <$f>;
    return $class->parse($data);
}

=head2 parse

Creates a C<Finance::QIF> object from a string.

=cut

sub parse {
    my ($class, $data) = @_;
    my @lines = split /\n/, $data;
    my $type = shift @lines;
    croak "Can only handle bank accounts right now, not type $type"
        unless $type eq "!Type:Bank";

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I try to parse a QIF file but croak: 
$ perl -MCarp=verbose qifread.pl 
 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/Finance/QIF.pm line 124
        Finance::QIF::parse('Finance::QIF', '!Type:Bank\x{d}\x{a}D09/0
+7/2004\x{d}\x{a}PDTE ENERGY PAYMENT\x{d}\x{a}MDTE ENERGY PAY...') cal
+led at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/Finance/QIF.pm line 111
        Finance::QIF::parse_file('Finance::QIF', 'dfcu0904.qif') calle
+d at qifread.pl line 6

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My question is why didn't the file split on "\x{a}"? Isn't it the same as "/n"?

Thanks (as always).

20040909 Edit by ysth: change pre to code tags Sorry for the "chatty" question. Yes, I understand the sub would still choke on the carriage return character even if "\x{a}" were to be treated as "\n". I just thought maybe someone might explain when "\n" and "\x{a}" are the same in Perl and when they're different. Or maybe point out where in the docs to read--my searches haven't turned anything up.

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