eggsy

Hi all suppose I had the following flat text file

lol;laugh out loud (NEWLINE)
m8;mate (NEWLINE)
l8r;later (NEWLINE)

etc

I want to try and put them into an array

EG. @array = split(/;/, <FILE>);

but it only works for the first line, stumbling at the new line character?

Does anyone know if theres a way to strip out all the new line characters from the file???

Sorry if this is a real basic question, Perl newbie here

Thank you all who read this

Eggsy