So i need to know position (in the line) of each column.

There are various ways to understand your question. For example, it could mean that there are column markers like "<C>" (literally) in the first/header row, and you want to find where they occur on that line.  In that case, you could do something like 

my $firstrow = "<S>                           <C>              <C>    
+   <C>        <C>       <C> <C>   <C>          <C>       <C>       <C
+>    <C>";

my @columnpos;

while ($firstrow =~ /(<\w>)/g) {
    push @columnpos, pos($firstrow) - length($1);
}
print "positions: @columnpos\n";
__END__
positions: 0 30 47 57 68 78 82 88 101 111 121 128

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In reply to Re: How to find start position of each column by almut
in thread How to find start position of each column by Gangabass

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