Have you thought of using unpack? Then each time you wish to split the $string into $subStrings you can just change the unpack code list.

I'm not sure how you're representing @list - is each line an element that needs parsing into $var and $noChar or individual elements?

Assuming the structure you have above you could do something like: 

my $string = '21090412500011            209         070279501 9047    
+0         1111';
my $f = "A6A4A4A15A18A4A1A5A13"; # Dynamically construct from list val
+ues.
my @subStrings = unpack("A6A4A4A15A18A4A1A5A13",$string);

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Then the @subStrings list would hold all the substrings you require.

All you have to do each time you read it is parse the @list and create the $f pack list. Each substring is represented by an "A" (alphanumeric) followed by the length of the substring - i.e. "A6" is a 6 char substring.

In reply to Re: split string by character count by gothic_mallard
in thread split string by character count by SiLiK

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