Sorry, should have provided wanted output. That's what I ended up with on my first try :-) wanted output: 
$VAR1 = [
          [
            'single',
            'cell',
            'values'
          ],
          [
            'are',
            'really',
            'easy'
          ],
          [
            'but',
            'these',
            'aren\'t'
          ],
          [
            'multiline',
            'cells',
            'suck'
          ],
          [
            'stilton',
            'is',
            'great'
          ],
          [
            'back',
            'to',
            'life'
          ],
          [
            'back',
            'to',
            'reality',
            'with',
            'more',
            'cells'
          ]
        ];

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Cheers anyway!

davis
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In reply to Re^2: Splitting multiline scalars into different array entries by davis
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