in reply to ignore some delimiters while using split

nurulnad:

If the input file is fixed format, as the two sample lines indicate, you can even extract the fields using unpack:

my ($f1, $name, $num, $f, $g, $h) = unpack "A9A30A9A2A2A2", $_;

or substr:

my $f1=substr $_,0, 8; my $name=substr $_, 8, 32; ...etc...

...roboticus