Please use code tags. See Markup in the Monastery for details.

How do you want to treat the blank lines?

Maybe you need to read blockwise?

#!/usr/bin/perl -l
use strict;
use warnings;

{
    local $/ = "";

    my @blocks = <DATA>;

    local $, = "\n";
    print map { ">>>$_<<<" } @blocks;
}

__DATA__
AB
A
BB





CC
C
CD



EE
EA

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Maybe you want to capture the split pattern?

#!/usr/bin/perl -l
use strict;
use warnings;

my $content = do { local $/; <DATA> };
my @blocks = split /(\n\n+)/, $content;

{
    local $, = "\n";
    print map { ">>>$_<<<" } @blocks;
}

__DATA__
AB
A
BB





CC
C
CD



EE
EA

[download]

In reply to Re: Split on Blank Line into array, and keep the blank line in the array by linuxer
in thread Split on Blank Line into array, and keep the blank line in the array by RBBD

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