Anyone know how to do this? Note, there is no explicit delimiter, I just want k-length chunks from an n-length string (right now, n is a constant defined in the scripts' config module).

Anything more elegant than something like... 
for(my($i)=0;$i<$length-2;$i+=$n)
  {
    eval{"\$d".($i-1/$n)} = substr($field, $i, $i+2)
  }

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...would be greatly appreciated. (note: untested... well, probably not well thought out either, but the idea stands)

Well, actually, anything shorter and more elegant (I've been told that eval is never elegant ;).

BTW, I even know how wide the field is, so I could do a my($d1, $d2, $d3, $d4) = in front of the splitting part. Although the general goal is for an arbitrary length fixed-width field, if I could have the above, get a task done, and I could mark that section for later revision.

In reply to One liner: split fixed-width field into equal length chunks... by mr. jaggers

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