Hi all,

I am reading data from an HTML file, and puting this data into an array.

One of the array values have three 'new line chars' that looks like a 'square' in the HTML file itself.

It's an address field, so the value looks like this in the file:

Address Line 1<square>
Address Line 2<square>
Address Line 3

When printed in the perl program, the array field looks like this:

Address Line 1
Address Line 2
Address Line 3

I would like to extract the data, but it is proving difficult.
Here is the code I am using:

$line = $array_value;<br>
$_ = $line;<br>
/^(.?)\n/;<br>
print $1.$2.$3."\n";<br>

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When I run the above script, I get "Address Line 1" printed. When I replace the reg.ex. with /^(.?)\n(.?)\n/ in an attempt to grab the second line, NOTHING is printed!


I also tried using the following code to remove the new line characters, to no avail:


$line =~ tr/\015//;<br>
$line =~ tr/\n//;<br>
$line =~ tr/\r//;<br>

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Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks!

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