Happy New Year All - I hope noone over-indulged with the Mead! This is one of my quick silly questions so enjoy! I'm trying to use split on \n with, so far, no success. Can this be done? (chomp is of no use as the records in question have \n embedded in many places. The suggestions that I've had so far are the things that I have tried (with nada success!)

my @lines    = () ;
#
($msg) = @ARGV ;
#
@lines = split /\n/,$msg ;
#
foreach (@lines) {
   print "\n$_\n" ;
}
#
print "\n" ;
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I've tried this with & without the double quotes round the \n in the split statement and the best I get now - and the word useless springs to mind -is one field, xnynz. So the split hasn't completely worked it's removed the \'s from the field only! Sorry guys but NONE of your suggestions work! Have any of you actually tried this? Cheers, Ronnie

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