Re^2: Printing Fixed Width Strings and Spliting String into Multiple Lines

There's no reason to invoke something as heavy-duty as the regular expression engine when all you're working with is substrings of a given length.

my $s;
print "$s\n" while $s = substr $str, 0, 100, '';
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Re^3: Printing Fixed Width Strings and Spliting String into Multiple Lines by mmartin (Monk) on Feb 08, 2012 at 15:54 UTC
Hey oko1, I just gave your little snippet a try and it worked without any problems... Thanks! Thanks, Matt	[reply]