I'm pretty new to Perl but for the life of me I can't figure out this problem. I'm trying to read a tab delimited text file line by line but when I try to read the file it crashes. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use warnings;

print "1\n";
open((IN),"<dev.csv");
print "2\n";

while (($read)=<IN>) {
    print "3\n";
    chomp($read);
    @lst = split(/\t/,$read);
    print "$lst[1]";
}

close(IN);

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The program always prints out 1,2 but never gets to 3. I've tried using Tie::Handle::CSV but it gets the same result. Can anyone help?

In reply to Reading a CSV file by alchang

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