use Modern::Perl; use Bit::Vector; use Data::Dump qw/dump/; my %conversion = ( ' ' => 0, 0 => 1, 1 => 2, 2 => 3, 3 => 4, 4 => 5, 5 => 6, 6 => 7, 7 => 8, 8 => 9, 9 => 10, A => 11, B => 12, C => 13, D => 14, E => 15, F => 16, G => 17, H => 18, I => 19, J => 20, K => 21, L => 22, M => 23, N => 24, O => 25, P => 26, Q => 27, R => 28, S => 29, T => 30, U => 31, V => 32, W => 33, X => 34, Y => 35, Z => 36, ); my %inverted; my $vector = Bit::Vector->new(6); for ( keys %conversion ) { $vector->from_Dec( $conversion{$_} ); $conversion{$_} = $vector->to_Bin(); $inverted{ $vector->to_Bin() } = $_; } while () { chomp; my $string = join '', map { $conversion{$_} } split //; my $vector = Bit::Vector->new_Bin( 36, $string ); my $bits = $vector->to_Bin; $bits =~ s/([01]{6})/$inverted{$1}/ge; say $bits; } __DATA__ 123456 ZZZZZZ ABCDEF