Is there a length limit to split a line into mutliple variables?

I tried to split a string into a multiple variables where they are using commas delimiter to separate. It has 36 variables per line.

e.g. 123;abc;456;def;123;;123...

My code is

while (readline $fhin) {
    my ($1, $2, $3,....$36) = split(/;/);
    printf $fhout, $s,\n", $1;
}

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When I looked at the output files, it gave werid output where it mixed up with the different variable and print it out

123,

abc,

123,

Is there a limit of length that split function can handle, otherwise, it will truncate the line into next line. is there a way how to resolve it?

The perl version is 5.8.8

In reply to split function by tcheungcm

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