On May 10, FLAHERTY, JIM-CONT said:

>This string can be various in length ? Note it doesnt end with that
>delimiter. Help
> 
>  $jims = "!23!45!67

You could use split(), but you'd have to get rid of the first
(empty) element.  Instead, I would suggest the following regex:

  while ($string =~ /!([^!]*)/g) {
    my $num = $1;
    # ...
  }

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