On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:34:38 +1100 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >> chomp(my $tmp=$x); my @lines=split /\n/,$tmp,-1 > >This one fails for the case $x = "\n"; @lines should contain one >empty element, but the code above contains none.
Sigh. I'd call that a bug if someone hadn't gone to the trouble to test for it and document it. (Indeed, I see a bug report out there: #6653, was 20010327.008.) So do something like: my @lines; chomp(my $tmp=$x); @lines = split /\n/,$tmp,-1 or @lines=""
