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in thread Performance problems on splitting long strings

Thank you very much, I had overseen this option of unpack. Yous answer is really useful for me.
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Re^3: Performance problems on splitting long strings
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jan 30, 2014 at 21:17 UTC

    Just FYI: You refer in several places to wanting groups of five characters, but  'A4' or  '(A4)*' will give you a group or groups of four characters, trailing-space padded if necessary.