no, I want to use one of Crypt modules which expacts to be passed strings of n*16 bytes. How do I go about genereting such blocks ??
Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Goland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 5:24 AM Subject: Re: byte count > 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' > ]; > > -- > Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pjcj.net > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]