I realised as I woke up that it could be that the ^M in your code could be actual ^M characters and not the ^M that I had mistaken them for. Now that that's clear, I'd still use an explicit escape sequence e.g. \x0D (or the divinely retro \015).

I fear I didn't get the point across re the for loop... push takes a LIST of things to push onto the ARRAY. So in push @chunks, split(/\cM/, $_) the entire list returned by split is pushed onto @chunks all in one go.

The caveat about trailing separators and split can be seen in

print map("'$_' ", split(/:/, 'a:b:c:::')    ), "\n" ;  # 'a' 'b' 'c'
print map("'$_' ", split(/:/, 'a:b:c:::', -1)), "\n" ;  # 'a' 'b' 'c' 
+'' '' ''

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see split. I fear I confused the issue by addressing two points in one paragraph, for which I will now do penance and hope for forgiveness from the gods of clear English.

I note that the problem is now fixed. Since the code as posted worked on my machine, I'm particularly curious as to what the problem was.

In reply to Re^3: Parsing a text file by gone2015
in thread Parsing a text file by calmthestorm

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