This anwser disqualifies itself as a one-liner from the start. If you're looking for a good one liner, BrowserUK's last answer is a beauty. However, in the spirit of TIMTOWTDI and 'getting to know your unpack', curiosity piqued me to use unpack to split a string: 
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my $string="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
my $aryref= [];
chunk_em($string,$aryref,5);
print Dumper($aryref);

sub chunk_em {
  
  my $string=shift;
  my $aryref=shift;
  my $num=shift;
  my ($first, $second)=unpack("A${num}A*", $string);
  push @$aryref, $first;
  chunk_em($second,$aryref,5) if $second;
  return $aryref;
}
__END__
$VAR1 = [
          'abcde',
          'fghij',
          'klmno',
          'pqrst',
          'uvwxy',
          'z'
        ];

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Not a one liner by any stretch of imagination, so this is FYI only.

CU
Robartes-

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

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