multiline string to array 1

[eldeann]

hello,
this may be easy but doesn't work for me.
I have a string that contains several lines (that's the ouput of a CVS update).
I'd like to transform it to an array of lines.

i'm using :
@myarray = split(/\n/, $output);

but that doesn't split anything...

any idea ?

thanks
Adrien

 

[stevexff]

Ought to work. What output do you get if you print $output;?

 

[eldeann]

the output is a multi-lines paragraph... so i needed the multiline options like this :

split(/\n/m, $output);

and that works.

 

[ishnid]

How are you filling the string in the first place? If it's coming from using backticks to shell out to CVS, you can assign its lines into an array directly, rather than having to split them up afterwards.

I can't think of any change of behaviour that the /m introduces that would affect this particular regexp, as I thought /m only affects the `^', `$' and `.' characters. Maybe I need to read perlre again!