in reply to question regarding "v" flag of printf
Perl interprets each character in the string as its index in your character set. (In ASCII, character 49 is "1").
To split a string of digits, use:
my @digits = split //, '123';For your second case, there are a few ways to do it, but unpack is a popular method:
my @nums = unpack '(A3)*', '100200300';Note that both of these solutions don't actually care whether the strings contain digits or other characters like letters; if that matters to you, be sure to validate your input.
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