in reply to Re^2: Parsing a text file without newlines
in thread Parsing a text file without newlines

It sounds like you need to set the eol flag. Look at the file in a hex editor to find out what the line endings really are (your editor may hide some things) or else just experiment with eol set to \012 or \015\012 or \015.
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