On 11-07-21 11:41 AM, Rob Dixon wrote:
I am pretty sure that the original code is a perversion of

   split /\t|\n/;

which is a lazy way of losing a trailing newline without chomping first.

It also seems excessive.  This is the same thing:

split /[\t\n]/;


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