in reply to spliting text!!

my $text = s{(\S{70})}{\1 }g;

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This will add a space every 70 characters.

Update: Sorry I misread your question, did you what to split your string into an array or did you just want to space out a very long string?

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Re^2: spliting text!!
by Trizor (Pilgrim) on Mar 08, 2007 at 21:16 UTC

    Using \1 in s/// is depreciated as it can be ambiguously interpreted as a charachter since the second half of the substitution is treated as a quoted string; just use $1.

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