I'm very unsure about what you really want, but this capture my understanding of what you ask for:
use strict; use warnings;
my $input = '1234562234563334564444565555566789';
my @sets_of_six;
while (length $input > 6){
   my $front = substr($input, 0, 6);
   $input    = substr($input, 6);
   push @sets_of_six, $front;
}

push @sets_of_six, $input if length $input > 0;
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper( @sets_of_six );

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Now, that is a rather naive solution, it's not very effective, nor is it very perl'ish, but I think you might understand what is happening.
Is it faintly aproaching your question?
hth

In reply to Re^5: Breaking up a string? by stiller
in thread Breaking up a string? by Anonymous Monk

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