Dear monks,

I have a fairly simply loop of the type 
    open FILE, $_;
        while(<FIL>){
            my @row = split "\t";
            print @row;
...}

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which has suddenly gone horribly wrong. Instead of separating my data into nice neat little array, like

@row = qw(This is tab data)

It started hacking the heck out of it!

@row = qw(T h i s i s t a b d a t a)

Looking at the file that comes to me suggests that it's unicode, and that my split is for some reason failing to see any tabs in the data. I'd really like to use the file and process it automatically, rather than having to resave it as a normal tab-delimited file. Surely someone knows how to work around this issue, and split these files in some relatively straightforward manner?

In reply to Recognizing tabs in unicode files by SamCG

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