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r.joseph has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Suppose the string:
$a = '059057034037063107105003046039039036107063035046';
and I want to split every 3 digits to get an array that contains 059, 057, 034, .... Shouldn't this:
my @nums = split(/(\d{3})/,$a);
Work just fine? For some reason, it defintely doesn't! I can't figure why...Thanks for the help!

r. j o s e p h
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