> Can the perl split function split a random 40 character 
> string into five 8 character strings?
>  
> With random I mean that there is no special pattern in the 40 
> character string that can be used as split markers.

How about unpack?

@eights = unpack("A8" x (length($string)/8), $string);

Thanks
Jim

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