in reply to Re^3: golf: shortest way to parse a pipe delimited file
in thread golf: shortest way to parse a pipe delimited file

It doesn't fail for me with Perl 5.8.7.

My best guess is that your input had a blank line in it at the start or the end. That blank line would (legitimately from the spec) result in the output that you saw.

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