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in reply to Perl Substr

Not sure how you want to "save" multiple columns into a scalar, but consider: 

$_ = 'one two#three=four five=six#seven eight=nine';
print join '.', (/([^#= ]+)/g)[1,2,4..6];

#prints
#two.three.five.six.seven

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