#!/usr/bin/perl use 5.016; use warnings; # 1055294 my $line = ' j1000010017 6790194100109201301092013THIS TO BE PRINTED M PW09-3PY248005BIK00 '; say substr( $line, 38, 20); say substr( $line, 68, 3); =head EXECUTION C:\>D:\_wo\1055294.pl THIS TO BE PRINTED 248 =cut