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hai Corion,
Your answer will not work. since U20 will return 20 elements,so the first element will be stored in $first , and remaining 19 elements and the strings returned by A10A10A10 will be stored in the array @second.
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Re^5: help needed in storing the return values of unpack
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 23, 2006 at 09:49 UTC

    Ooops - I thought that U returned a Unicode string and not single items, so my answer is wrong. You should go with GrandFather's approach and move the 20 items out of the array later:

    my @items = unpack "...", $string;
my @first = splice @items, 0, 20;

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