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Yes, right, but this also tells us that it might be good to upgrade to a newer version of Perl, if possible. Perl 5.8 is really old.

But if this is not possible, no big deal, it is possible to live without named captures.

Having said that, I would add that using unpack (as already suggested by poj) is probably better fit for such fixed-column formatted data than regex.

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