Re: more splitting travails

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:05 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There's nothing harder than really getting on top of splitting issues :(
>
> I have a file with blank lines in it, I read it into a variable

This is probably the place you're getting messed up.  HOW do you read
it into a variable?

> Other various attempts give me the number of elements being the
> character count.  Weirdly there's places where I iterate over all the
> lines in 'List' and it *counts* nine, but only displays five.

Here you've probably done an earlier step right, but are forgetting to
quote what you're passing to print (or whatever "display" means).  The
default for arrays on the command line is to remove empty elements
unless quoted.