Hi again folks I perhaps (no perhaps about it!) phrased my last question badly! I'm trying to perform a split using \n as the split character. This works fine on scalars defined within my script unfortunately the field to be split comes via @ARGV as a parameter and that most definately doesn't work! 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
#
use strict ;
#
my $line     = undef ;
my @lines    = () ;
#
my ($test) = @ARGV ;
#
#my $test = "x\ny\nz" ;
    
print "\nTest :: $test\n" ;

my @foo = split /\n/, $test;
    
foreach $line (@foo) {
   print "\n$line\n" ;
}
#
print "\n" ;
#

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This doesn't work regardless of whether the parameter is in single or double quotes or is not in fact quoted! I'm baffled does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks Ronnie

In reply to Split/Parameter Problem by Ronnie

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