Split on every second character

[gri6507]

I have what I thought would be a very simple problem. However, it has me baffled. I have data of the form

"010203040506"

which I would like to split into the form of

"01 02 03 04 05 06"

. The code that I wrote

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my @list = split(/(..)/, '010203040506');
print Dumper(\@list);
print join(' ', @list)

does the job, but produces empty elements in the list, which results in the undesired output of

" 00  01  02  03  04  05  06"

which contains unwanted spaces. I understand why this is: when splitting on any two characters, the first two are a match, thus, thus they represent the split string (which is element 1), which separates a NULL string (captured in element 0) from the remaining characters (captured in remaining characters). However, I don't want to see the extra spaces in the resulting output. How can I get rid of that?