Hi All. I need to split the string to a several substrings of the same length, the last substring should be blank padded so that it's length also would be the same. And - that's the problem - the string may be empty also.

That is what I've written
1) - ok on empty string, but on not empty string produce unnecessary blank substring

my $x = "";
$x=~s/(.{0,3})/"'$1".(' 'x(3-length($1)))."'\n"/eg;
print $x
---
'   '


my $x = "1234567890";
$x=~s/(.{0,3})/"'$1".(' 'x(3-length($1)))."'\n"/eg;
print $x
---
'123'
'456'
'789'
'0  '
'   '
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2) - ok on not empty string, but empty string is not padded

my $x = "";
$x=~s/(.{1,3})/"'$1".(' 'x(3-length($1)))."'\n"/eg;
print $x
---
___prints_nothing___


my $x = "1234567890";
$x=~s/(.{1,3})/"'$1".(' 'x(3-length($1)))."'\n"/eg;
print $x
---
'123'
'456'
'789'
'0  '
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any advice?

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