I have been given a tab separated flat file to process. Each line has at least three strings separated by tabs and (of course) a newline at the end.

I have been using a simple script to open the file, read each line, trim the newline, and split the line into an array based on tabs ie


while <FILE> {
 chomp;
 @line = split("\t");

 ... do things to @line...

}

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Recently I have found that some strings in the line have carriage returns in them. This throws my simple routine into chaos because it is now treating the one "entry" (or line) as multiple entries (or lines).

Any ideas as to how to get around this problem?

Thanks.

In reply to Parsing lines containing extra carriage returns by ezekiel

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