in reply to split problems

Take a look at Text::CSV

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Re (tilly) 2: split problems
by tilly (Archbishop) on Apr 12, 2001 at 06:28 UTC
    That breaks on embedded newlines.

    For a solution that solves that, check out Text::xSV (which I intend to put on CPAN this weekend, should have done it ages ago).