in reply to printing 20 characters in a line.

If you don't mind losing $str:

$str=~s/((?:\d+ ){20})/$1\n/g;

print OUT "$str\n";

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Re^2: printing 20 characters in a line.
by ig (Vicar) on Nov 14, 2008 at 09:24 UTC

    or, to avoid modifying $str and be rid of trailing spaces

    my $tmp = $str;
$tmp =~ s/((?:\s*\d+){20})/$1\n/g;
print OUT "$tmp\n";

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    update: get rid of leading spaces

    my $tmp = $str;
$tmp =~ s/\s*((?:\s*\d+){20})/$1\n/g;
print OUT "$tmp\n";

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