Hi snafu, good points from many others, just thought I'd point out that with

    map { push (@status, $_)    }
    map { split(/\n/,$_)        } $raw_data;
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you're throwing away the results of the outside map. Wouldn't this...

    @status = split /\n/, $raw_data;
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do the same thing? Or am I misunderstanding?

andy.

update: or even

foreach (split /\n/, $raw_data) {
    ...
}
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