qadwjoh has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi

I'm trying to parse output from LWP::UserAgent. I'm sending a query to a CGI script and want to convert the ouput into an array using split: 
@array = split /\n/, $ouput;

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But this doesn't work as the resulting array only contains one line, which is the entire contents of $output (which when printed out is spread over several lines).

It seems the content of $output doesn't use \n as a new line character. I've tried using \r and \f, but to no avail

Any ideas?

Andrew

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Re: Parsing output from LWP::UserAgent
by Happy-the-monk (Canon) on Mar 04, 2004 at 22:08 UTC
    the linebreak-sequence in webserver output is "\015\012" which only on some operating systems will be matched by "\n". You might want to try to split by /\015\012/ or /\015?\012/
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Re: Parsing output from LWP::UserAgent
by Plankton (Vicar) on Mar 04, 2004 at 19:23 UTC
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Re: Parsing output from LWP::UserAgent
by saintmike (Vicar) on Mar 04, 2004 at 19:34 UTC
    It would be interesting to see what kind of line separator is being used in the output. Try a hexdump to figure out the ascii code: 

        use Data::Hexdumper;  # from CPAN
    my $results = hexdump(
         data => $data,   # what to dump
               );
    print $results;

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    -- saintmike

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