If you know the length of the string, you can use unpack: 
print join(':', unpack 'a2a2a2a2a2a2', '00a0c801adc6')),"\n<BR>";

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In fact, even if you don't, you could probably do something like this: 
my $string = '00a0c801adc6';
print join(':', unpack('a2' x (length($string)/2), $string)),"\n<BR>";

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(Documentation on using unpack seems unusually sparse, so there might be an easier way to do this that I am unaware of.)

Also ++petral. I knew there had to be a way to use split and extended patterns, but couldn't work it out myself.

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In reply to Re: More Help with Regex by impossiblerobot
in thread More Help with Regex by lucky1

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