Suppose you have this input: 

line1
line2
line3
line4
line5

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And the following code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $file = shift;

local( $/, *INPUT );
open(INPUT, $file);
$input = <INPUT>;

print $input;

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Is there a way to transform that $input scalar into an array? I realize that local( $/, *INPUT ); gets rid of the new lines. I also don't have any special separators in my actual input (my "real" input is a lot like this "fake" input, except that its MIME encoded, and I decode it using MIME::QuotedPrint::Perl. Which by the way, is why I'm doing local( $/, *INPUT ); in the first place.. I have to read the whole MIME-encoded file into a scalar to decode it. Can't read it in line by line because of that. :/ )

I just want to iterate through $input line by line and do something with each..so, somehow, I need to turn it into an array :)

Any thoughts/suggestions/solutions welcome!

In reply to Transforming a scalar to an array by vxp

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