Fellow Monks;
I am having an issue trying to split a file whose fields are seperated by the '|' character. It seems to be treating the special character as undefined and splitting my file on each character. 
#!/pw/prod/svr4/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
#
# Purpose: Remove fields from emtoc file to facilitate title compare.
#
# I/O:
#     Input: Complete Emtoc text file.
#     Output: Emtoc file with index info missing.
#
# History:
#     01/23/09 - Created
#
my $FALSE = 0;
my $TRUE  = 1;
my $debug = $FALSE;

if ( $#ARGV < 0 ) {
    print "Usage: $0 [In File][Out File]\n";
    exit(1);
}

my $emtocin = $ARGV[0];
my $emtocout = $ARGV[1] || 'cmpemtocout.txt';

# begin processing
open( FDIN,  $emtocin )  || die "Could not open $emtocin\n";
open( FDOUT, $emtocout ) || die "Could not open $emtocout\n";

while ( my $record = <FDIN> ) {

    print "Record is $record\n" if $debug;

    #
    # seperate fields according to the template
    my @fld = split("|", $record );

    #
    # open output file and overwrite file
    my $outrecord = join( '|',
        $fld[0], $fld[3], $fld[4], $fld[5], $fld[6], $fld[7], $fld[8] 
+);
    print FDOUT "$outrecord\n";
}
close FDIN;
close FDOUT;
print "End of $0\n";

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Input Data

file-101.pdf|BOOKMARK|4.2.5.4|71-00-03 Testing/Operating Limits|Goto_V
+iew_External|FIT_WIDTH|1|N/A
file-102.pdf|BOOKMARK|4.2.5.5|71-00-05 Storage/Transport|Goto_View_Ext
+ernal|FIT_WIDTH|1|N/A
file-103.pdf|BOOKMARK|4.2.5.6|71-00-10 Component Replacement|Goto_View
+_External|FIT_WIDTH|1|N/A
file-104.pdf|BOOKMARK|4.2.5.6.1|LIST OF EFFECTIVE PAGES|Goto_View_Exte
+rnal|FIT_WIDTH|1|N/A
file-105.pdf|BOOKMARK|4.2.5.6.2|HIGHLIGHTS|Goto_View_External|FIT_WIDT
+H|1|N/A
file-106.pdf|BOOKMARK|4.2.5.6.3|TABLE OF CONTENTS|Goto_View_External|F
+IT_WIDTH|1|N/A

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Output Results

f|e|-|1|0|1|.
f|e|-|1|0|2|.
f|e|-|1|0|3|.
f|e|-|1|0|4|.
f|e|-|1|0|5|.
f|e|-|1|0|6|.

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Any help would be greatly appreciated

-- Grey Fox
"We are grey. We stand between the darkness and the light" B5

In reply to Problem with split using a | seperator by Grey Fox

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