Dear Monks,

I have written a sub to decode a sting of information from a 15 character base 36 input. I haven't tested it yet, however I believe it should work. My question is, where I have it splitting the data via substr as 5 separate lines, is there a simpler way of doing this, like splitting it into an array with a regular expression? It ends up returning it as an array anyway so if I can skip making the array that would be great.

My includes for reference: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX;
use DBI;
use Crypt::Eksblowfish::Bcrypt qw(bcrypt_hash);
use Math::BaseCalc;

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And the sub in question: 
sub ReadDaycode {

# Get daycode.
my $DC = $_[0];

# Divide daycode into its parts
my $BoardTotal = $B10->to_base(substr($DC,0,4));
my $AvgSample = $B10->to_base(substr($DC,4,2));
my $Level = $B10->to_base(substr($DC,6,2));
my $Exp = $B10->to_base(substr($SC,8,5));
my $Fails = $B10->to_base(substr($DC,13,2));
return ($BoardTotal,$AvgSample,$Level,$Exp,$Fails);
}

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Thankyou all for your help :)

In reply to Dividing a string into multiple substrings of different length by BlueSaxman

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