I'm curious as to why the following does not work. I gather it has something to do with some underlying magic of regular expressions (or perhaps in split)? It just seems odd that I have to do an m/$regex/m to split on LFs and CRs. I would have thought switching to using octal or hex codes would override some of that default behavior. 
# Doesn't DWIM
$data =~ s/\012/\015/;
$data =~ s/\015+/\015/;
@records = split /\015/, $data;

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My other curiosity would be is there a way to split without having to resort to the map+chomp afterwards (while leaving the rest of the data intact)? 
# Works, but the map+chomp seems ugly
@records = map {chomp $_;  $_} split /^/xms, $data;

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Note: I realize only the 'm' option is necessary. The 'xs' are as per Perl Best Practices.

Thank you oh great wise ones!!

-- Argel

In reply to Special behavior for LF and CR in RegExs? by Argel

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