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in reply to Efficient walk/iterate along a string

I haven't Benchmarked against anything, but unpack might be faster for splitting to an array: 

>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $str = 'abcde';
 my @chrs = unpack '(a)*', $str;
 print qq{'$_'} for @chrs;
"
'a'
'b'
'c'
'd'
'e'

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