I have some text from a third-party app which I'm storing in a single variable that needs parsing. I am using: split /\n/, $app_text; to break it into lines for processing. I'm looking for "Field:Value" lines and ignoring everything else. For most of the text this is fine, however the external app is borking some of the fields and putting a \n after the colon meaning the Value for that field ends up in the next array element. Here's some sample code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my $app_text = "one:partridge\ntwo:\nturtle doves\nthree:french hens\n
+";

foreach my $line (split /\n/, $app_text) {
    print "$line\n";
}

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Produces: 
one:partridge
two:
turtle doves
three:french hens

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How can I tell split to split on the \n but not if preceeded by a colon, so I get two:turtle doves for the second array element in the above example?

Many thanks,
John

In reply to Pattern match for split() - need match but not match syntax by Tanoti

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