On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 05:06:44AM -0500, Mark Goland wrote:

> hi , I am having a hard time matching n bits at a time. basicly I have a
> string which can be X bytes long, I want to creat an array of N bytes long.
> So lets say X=23 and N=5, I would have an array of 5, for of which would be
> 5 bytes long. Any idea's ?? are there any modules that can split up strings
> like this ??

Are you looking for something like this?

$ perl -MData::Dumper -e '@a = shift =~ /(.{1,5})/g; print Dumper \@a' 
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw
$VAR1 = [
          'abcde',
          'fghij',
          'klmno',
          'pqrst',
          'uvw'
        ];

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