Yes, I realize this. I guess I've been programming in languages where dynamic arraying is impractical for so long that I forget that perl has such flexibility.

I didn't want to declare an array of a fixed size... and if I did, I didn't want to use an explicit for-loop (not sure why not, but the little voice in the back of my head said "hey, this is perl... you probably don't need a for loop to do that... it can probably happen in one line... it's probably a really short line, you idiot!")

Thanks for the resources, I'll read up on them! (couldn't wait, read the first... wow... so many of my programs to unbreak)

In reply to Re: Re^2: One liner: split fixed-width field into equal length chunks... by mr. jaggers
in thread One liner: split fixed-width field into equal length chunks... by mr. jaggers

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