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That gives an off-by-one $tokens value (it's actually counting the stuff "around" the tokens (update: and it requires creation of an otherwise unused array to hold most of that stuff)), but that's easy to fix:

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -le
"my $t = 'x';
 ;;
 for my $line (qw(
   1212123x534534534534xx4545454x232322xx
   0901001x876879878787xx0909918x212245xx
   1212123x534534534534xx4545454x232323xx
   1212133x534534534534xx4549454x232322xx
   4352342xx23232xxx345545x45454x23232xxx
   )) {
   my $tokens = my ($first, @rest) = split $t, $line, -1;
   $tokens -= 1;
   print qq{'$line':  num '$t' tokens is: $tokens};
   dd ($first, \@rest);
   }
"
'1212123x534534534534xx4545454x232322xx':  num 'x' tokens is: 6
(1212123, [534534534534, "", 4545454, 232322, "", ""])

'0901001x876879878787xx0909918x212245xx':  num 'x' tokens is: 6
("0901001", [876879878787, "", "0909918", 212245, "", ""])

'1212123x534534534534xx4545454x232323xx':  num 'x' tokens is: 6
(1212123, [534534534534, "", 4545454, 232323, "", ""])

'1212133x534534534534xx4549454x232322xx':  num 'x' tokens is: 6
(1212133, [534534534534, "", 4549454, 232322, "", ""])

'4352342xx23232xxx345545x45454x23232xxx':  num 'x' tokens is: 10
(
  4352342,
  ["", 23232, "", "", 345545, 45454, 23232, "", "", ""],
)
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(But I don't really see anything wrong with using good old tr/// for counting and poor old substr for fixed-field extraction.)

Update: This gets rid of @rest and the $tokens -= 1; statement for all you one-liner addicts out there:
my $tokens = (my ($first) = split $t, $line, -1) - 1;

Give a man a fish: <%-{-{-{-<

In reply to Re^2: Perl - Remove duplicate based on substring and check on delimiters by AnomalousMonk
in thread Perl - Remove duplicate based on substring and check on delimiters by bopibopi

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