Re^2: How to divide a line from a text file into 8 digit chunks

[ozgurp]

Hi I tried both unpack and your suggestion,

my @array = split m/(.{8})/, $string;

seems to create a size 11 array with some additional spaces whereas unpack creates a size 6 array. But I am not sure why it does that.

[moritz]

seems to create a size 11 array with some additional spaces

This is why I added the line with grep after that.

[AnomalousMonk]

I agree the  unpack solution is better, but a regex solution without the  split complication or  push-ing would be something like:

>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $s = 'GRID     213736         15235.2 -2606.28596.178';
 my @ra = $s =~ m{ .{1,8} }xmsg;
 print qq{:$_:} for @ra;
"
:GRID    :
: 213736 :
:        :
:15235.2 :
:-2606.28:
:596.178:

Update: Did not notice balakrishnan's earlier and essentially identical reply before posting this.