split a string

Hi,

I am trying to split a string on every 9th character. I thought that this

my @list = split(/.{9}/, $string);

might do it but it doesn't work.

I thought about using splice but the string is a scalar. If I coudl
force it into an array that would help.

Has anyone got any ideas?
Thanx,
Dp.

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Re: split a string

On Apr 14, 2008, at 11:45, Dermot wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to split a string on every 9th character. I thought that
> this
>
> my @list = split(/.{9}/, $string);
>
> might do it but it doesn't work.
>
> I thought about using splice but the string is a scalar. If I coudl
> force it into an array that would help.
snip

This should do it:

my @nines = /.{9}/g;

Unless you don't want the ninth character, in which case this is what
you want

my @eights = /(.{8})./g;


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