Hello again and sorry to bother you with a perhaps interesting question:

I've a text without any data or line delimiters and I need to put into different variables (ideally $1, $2, etc.) for example the data in the positions 0 (first char) to 5, then in another variable the data in the positions 6 to 10 for each chunk of 6+5=11 chars and then continue afterwards with the following chunks.

But I need to do it using a regexp instead of unpack('A6 A5',$chunk_of_data) because the later is soooo slow...

Please can you suggest me a regexp to do it in a very efficient way ? I'm searching since a while without a result !

Many thanks in advance for your celestial help to fulfill my humble prayer...

Germain from http://www.vehicall.com

In reply to Splitting into variables columned data without delimiters with a regexp ? by gerleu

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