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See the $; variable. You'll want to split on that instead of <fs>. Also, printing $LaL isn't going to be helpful, since you're splitting to @LaL.
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Re^2: Mystery character in hash key name
by fiddler42 (Beadle) on Sep 08, 2009 at 20:01 UTC
    Hi,

    That was it! This works:-

    foreach (keys %NewRFactorAverageHash) {
    $RScale = $NewRFactorAverageHash{$_};
    $F = 0;
    $BBEL = 0;
    $AR = 0;
    $VL = 0;
    print ("original key is $_\n");
    @LaL = split (/$;/, $_);
    print ("new key is @LaL\n");
}

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    BTW, notice I replaced "new key is $LaL" with "new key is @LaL"...the original post was a typo.

    Thanks again!

    -Fiddler42

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Re^2: Mystery character in hash key name
by bv (Friar) on Sep 08, 2009 at 21:49 UTC

    Interestingly enough, the $; variable on my system (Debian GNU/Linux, Perl 5.10.0) is 0x1c, the ASCII FS (file separator) character. Who'da thunkit?

    print pack("A25",pack("V*",map{1919242272+$_}(34481450,-49737472,6228,0,-285028276,6979,-1380265972)))
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