note Anonymous Monk <p><i> split should die if it finds the pipe and it should process if it finds comma or tab delimited.</i> <p> No, [doc://split] shouldn't/won't die, that is now how it works <p> If you want your program to die on pipe, use the match operator and match a pipe, examples in [doc://perlintro], read it 1006854 1006854 12