I would suggest to use wantarray. Perhaps: 

sub my_get_data_section {
  my $section = shift;
  my $data    = Data::Section::Simple::get_data_section($section);
  # probably error handling here...
  return wantarray ? split("\n", $data) : $data;
}

my $line  = my_get_data_section( $section );
my @lines = my_get_data_section( $section );

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You could also ask the author to support this feature.
Another option would be to overwrite Data::Section::Simple::get_data_section() with the implementation of my_get_data_section(), but that trick is probably quite dirty from a software engineering point of view...

In reply to Re: (scalar or array context|new|decorated) function for Data::Section::Simple? by Perlbotics
in thread (scalar or array context|new|decorated) function for Data::Section::Simple? by metaperl

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