Here's a marginally more clever version of your solution, which relies on the placeholder capabilities of a /g search. I mention it because I think it's a tiny bit more readable than the version you wrote. But ... you know ... personal preference and all that.
use strict;
use warnings;
my $test_string = "3 xyz";
# Start a global search
# It looks like the expected pattern includes a space. Let's put it he
+re.
if ( $test_string =~ m/^(\d+) /g ) {
my $length = $1;
# Pick up the search where our first match left off.
if ( $test_string =~ m/\G(.{$length})/ ) {
my $result = $1;
# Do stuff with $result ...
}
}
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