Thanks for the information moritz. I suppose this doesn't all directly relate to $/. Forgive my ignorance. I recall reading somewhere that using local $/=undef meant telling perl to read the entire file at once. Perhaps that's true and also has nothing to do with my issue. My hunch must have been way off.

The second block of code is what I wrote, thinking it better practice to not read/process the entire file at once. Instead I wanted to store the file in @records and then process them one by one.

Is there any obvious reason that I wouldn't get the same results from either set of code? I know they obviously differ in the way they're processing the file. What I don't understand is why the output of mine is so far off the mark.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

In reply to Re^2: Avoid using local $/=undef? by irDanR
in thread Avoid using local $/=undef? by irDanR

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