Don't make it so hard. Don't craft some ugly regexp or confusing split. Just keep it simple; split on commas, grab five at a time, print them, move on.

use List::MoreUtils qw(natatime);

my $to_split = "'A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H','I','J','K','L','M','N
+','O','P','Q','R','S','T','U','V','W','X','Y','Z'";

my $it = natatime 5, split /,/, $to_split;

while( my @vals = $it->() ) {
  local $" = ',';
  print "@vals\t";
}
print "\n";

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...the output...

'A','B','C','D','E'    'F','G','H','I','J'    'K','L','M','N','O'    '
+P','Q','R','S','T'    'U','V','W','X','Y'    'Z'

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Dave

In reply to Re: split with a delimiter, every 4 time it occurs. by davido
in thread split with a delimiter, every 4 time it occurs. by Anonymous Monk

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