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It seems that data file can split up to 17th elements and then the rest will start to split on the next line.
I don't see from your output that split would behave in this way, but you can easily verify this, by doing a 

print "LINE JUST READ IS: [$_]\n";

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just before the split.

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Re^4: split function
by tcheungcm (Novice) on Jan 26, 2012 at 08:20 UTC

    Thanks all. I think the problem is happened on the readline. After I add the line before the split

     print "Line just read is $_\n";

    the output is

    Line just read is 1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;11;12;13;14;15;16;17;18;19;20;

    Line just read is 21;22;23;24;25;26;27;28;29;30;31;32;33;34;35;36

    I also checked the lenght of each line is limited 51. Anyone would have clue?
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      Did you hexdump your data file?

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      Have a clue about what?

      Hopefully you're sufficiently convinced split function isn't broken, so your question is?

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        I don't think split function is an issue. it's something related when I tried to read a file. it only read the line up to length = 51 and then it will continue to read on the nextline. I already checked the file, there is no newline in the file.
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