Re: Counting characters in a string

print map { "$_\n" } $string =~ /.{1,5}/g;
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Re: Re: Counting characters in a string by ysth (Canon) on Feb 06, 2004 at 16:02 UTC
That will stop at every newline and continue again after it: `$ perl -we'$string = "abcdef\nghijk\nlmno\npqr\nst\nu"; > print map { "$_\n" } $string =~ /.{1,5}/g;' abcde f ghijk lmno pqr st u` [download] You either want the //s flag on the match or some other way of dealing with newlines.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Counting characters in a string by valentin (Abbot) on Feb 06, 2004 at 16:15 UTC
thanks, you are right `//s` is fine for me.	[reply] [d/l]


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