how to split blocks of text

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

I have seperated text from a file during input using $/="--", then put each seperated block in $line. The problem is the seperated text is more than one line (a block) and i cant seem to be able to seperate it further using the split function with \n or " " as a delimiter into lines. How can I go about separating the block further?

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Re: how to split blocks of text by b10m (Vicar) on Nov 08, 2005 at 11:19 UTC
Why isn't split working for you? `$text=<<"EOT"; Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 EOT foreach ( split(/\n/, $text) ) { print "* $_\n"; }` [download] -- b10m All code is usually tested, but rarely trusted.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: how to split blocks of text by ambrus (Abbot) on Nov 08, 2005 at 22:39 UTC
Or even `foreach ( split(/^/, $text) ) { print "* $_"; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: how to split blocks of text by TedPride (Priest) on Nov 08, 2005 at 11:22 UTC
One possibility is that your file uses \r as well as \n for line delimiters. As you can see from the following, there should be no problems with the split itself: `$/ = "--"; while (<DATA>) { chomp; @_ = split /\n/, $_; print "Second Line: $_[1]\n"; } __DATA__ multi line--data goes here` [download]	[reply] [d/l]