I have a single line that is 46 characters long with no delimeters. Looks like:

1222222222222222222223333333333333333333344444

The numbers just show where the data ends and a new set begins. Now I have to parse these, but I've never done it with no delimeters. Also, some fields may be left blank with all spaces. I was trying to use the regex expression:

/([\s.])([\s.]{20})([\s.]{20})([\s.]{5})/;

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But it didn't like it. I'm fairly new to Perl, but from what I know this should match ANYTHING (\s for space, . for any other character) and match it for how many spaces are specified. But it sure doesn't work! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kevin

In reply to Regex Matching by kbradford

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