Construct an array of offsets and use substr to delete the unwanted parts.
Update: ... as BrowserUK already suggested....
use warnings;
use strict;
#use Data::Dumper;
my $mask = '0001111111001111001111111';
my @mask;
while ( $mask =~ /0+/g ) {
push @mask, [ $-[0], ( $+[0] - $-[0] ) ];
}
#print Dumper \@mask;
#print $mask,"\n";
while (my $string = <DATA>){
#print $string;
chomp $string;
for (1..@mask){
my $replace = ''; #'*' x $mask[-$_][1]; #check to see
substr $string, $mask[-$_][0], $mask[-$_][1], $replace;
}
print $string, "\n";
}
__DATA__
0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0121012102??????????12121212????????
0111011102??????????12111112????????
0111011102??????????12111112????????
Output:
3456789cdefijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
1012102??????12121212????????
1011102??????12111112????????
1011102??????12111112????????
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