one major problem is that if it is being saved under windows or unix it doesn't use the same newline charcaters. i would do a globar replace of: $your_variable_or_file =~ s/\r/\n/g; try that and then parse the file. should work :) if u need anymore help, let me know On Mon, Apr 26, 1999, <gene.ray@excite.com> wrote: >Hello all, > >I have been racking my brains trying to figure out how to parse some test >from a file that has been written to from a html form. I can retrieve the >entire line but I cant seem to get the line to sepperate from its >delimiters. I'm pretty new at this and I know that this is one of the more >basic functions of Perl but I'm stumped. Any advice would be worshiped! > >thanks, >-Gene > > > > >_______________________________________________________ >Get your free, private email at http://mail.excite.com/ > >===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? >===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org > > ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org