Brothers,
I'm currently 'perling' a classic perl task. But I'm not quite sure, if the is a much better way. Maybe some of you have another idea to do this:
I got a big file with about 20 different 'lists' in it. Each list must be broken into peaces, exactly by a given template. I got the 'coordinates' of the different Tag-Regions.
i.e.: 
List 100:
W01 625 Z01 WWGZU Q19 0.343
S02 W222G02 XXXX9 B11 Mr.
        G03 uu 1      Adams
This has to be converted into : 
W01 625
Z01 WWGZU 
Q19 0.343
S02 W222
G02 XXXX9 
B11 Mr.|Adams
G03 uu 1
So my idea was to take one whole list, put it into an $hash->{col}->{row} hash, and took out all the defined tags by there coordinates. This works, but it's a bit slow. The hash-filling took a lot of time, I guess:
my $line = 0;
while (<FILE>) {
 my @linesplit = split //, $_;
 my $i = 0;
 for my $column (@linesplit) {
  $list->{$line}->{$i}= $column;
  $i++
 }
 $line++;
}

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But maybe there is a much better way for this kind of task, or even a cpan-module?
Thanks for any suggestions. 
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In reply to Break List into Pieces (was: other ways ?) by physi

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