Or probably the simplest

my @d = $field =~ m[.{1,$n}]g;

OH... it is beautiful! I just plugged it into "filename -> hash" function to convert filenames such as "access_log.03020700.gz" into hashes that are something like: 
{
  type => "access_log",
  year => "03",
  month => "02",
  day => "07",
  hour => "00"
  compressed => "1"
}

[download]
... needless to say, logfile munging of usage statistics is going splendidly now!

I feel like I've graduated from 1st grade of perl primary school... I'm actually Extracting Practical Reports from data!

In reply to Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable... by mr. jaggers
in thread One liner: split fixed-width field into equal length chunks... by mr. jaggers

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