I'm assuming the 1:, 2:, etc. aren't actually in @list. You said you wanted to end up with an array; how about this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $string = "21090412500011            209         070279501 9047    
+0         1111";
my @list = ("date", 6,
            "time", 4,
            "duration", 4,
            "calling-num", 15,
            "dialed-num", 18,
            "code-used", 4,
            "cond-code", 1,
            "ppm", 5,
            "auth-code", 13,);
            
my @anotherlist;
my $ptr = 0;


while(1){
  push(@anotherlist, shift(@list));
  my $length = shift(@list);
  push(@anotherlist, substr($string, $ptr, $length));
  $ptr += $length;
  last if $ptr >= length($string);
}


print "@anotherlist\n";

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TheEnigma

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

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