Re: split() ideas

[John Porter]

Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> 
>         1. Allow the first argument to split() to be a number such that
>            the string is broken into chunks of that many characters.

  @strings = /(.{$n})/g;


>         2. Allow the first argument to split() to be an array of
>            numbers, such that split returns a list of strings each as
>            long as the corresponding number.

  @strings = do { my $re = join '', map { "(.{$_})" } @lengths; /$re/ };

-- 
John Porter