From the Perl Cookbook, 1.5: 

# break into individual characters
my @characters = split(//);

# or if you want ASCII values
my @characters = unpack("C*");

# of if you wish to use a loop
while (/(.)/g) { # . is never a newline
     # do something with $1
}

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For a real world example, also from the Perl Cookbook (modified slightly): 
my %seen = ();
my $string = "J. J. Horner is so cool!";
foreach my $byte (split //, $string) {
    $seen{$byte}++;
}
print "unique chars are: ", sort(keys %seen), "\n";

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Which yeilds: unique chars are: !.HJceilnors 

J. J. Horner
Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix
jhorner@knoxlug.org http://www.knoxlug.org/

In reply to Re: How Do You Parse a Line After Each Character? by jjhorner
in thread How Do You Parse a Line After Each Character? by Anonymous Monk

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