Hi, It has been five years, now I am a bit rusty but hopefully it will remember everything, I tried to solve this problem myself but did not work. I have a text file and I need to read each line and devide it into 8 digit chunks, and put it into an array. For example, I would like to put the following line into 8 digit chunks but the last chunck is shorter than eight digit so it has to be 7 in this case. Th last chunk can be between 1 and 8 digits: 
GRID     213736         15235.2 -2606.28596.178

$array[0] = "GRID    "
$array[1] = " 213736 "
$array[3] = "        "
$array[4] = "15235.2 "
$array[5] = "-2606.28"
$array[6] = "596.178"

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Could you help? Thanks.

In reply to How to divide a line from a text file into 8 digit chunks by ozgurp

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