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in reply to Can split split against more than one character in a string of the same character?

Another approach would be to use unpack.

johngg@shiraz:~/perl/Monks$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -E '
my $str   = q{aaaaaaaaa};
my @parts = unpack q{(a2)*}, $str;
say qq{@parts};'
aa aa aa aa a

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I hope this is helpful.

Cheers,

JohnGG

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