Red_Dragon,
Is there a way in Perl to...

The answer to this question is almost always yes and there is almost always more than one way to do it. "There is more than one way to do it" is one of Perl's mottos. In this case, I will provide a straight forward answer. 

my $str = '1029576843';
my @f = split //, $str;
print $f[ 4 ];  # 5

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Cheers - L~R

Using a different variable for each piece of the string would require symbolic references which is typically frowned on which is why I used an array

In reply to Re: How to split a string by Limbic~Region
in thread How to split a string by Red_Dragon

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