in reply to Transforming a scalar to an array

sure, use split

now you just have to know where to split, since you don't have any newlines..

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Re^2: Transforming a scalar to an array
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jul 15, 2009 at 16:44 UTC
    ... since you don't have any newlines.
    But the newlines are all still there: they are embedded within the single string that represents the data read from the entire file.