Know your GNU coreutils. split already does what you want. The empty string as last argument suppresses the default prefix, the letter x. 

$ split --lines=1000 --numeric-suffixes=1 --suffix-length=5 --addition
+al-suffix=NR.txt /the/file ''

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Even in Perl, I think you have too much code for so little work. One doesn't need to open the input file oneself, it is simpler to pipe the content from the shell and read from STDIN in Perl. One doesn't need to loop over the input oneself, -n already does that. $. contains the current line number, $_ contains the current line content, see perlvar. 

</the/file perl -MIO::File -ne'
    my $nr = 1+int($./1_000);
    $handles[$nr] = IO::File->new(sprintf("%05dNR.txt", $nr), "w") unl
+ess defined $handles[$nr];
    $handles[$nr]->print($_);
'

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In reply to Re: Splitting a text file by daxim
in thread Splitting a text file by Dr Manhattan

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