On Sep 17, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan said:

>On Sep 17, NYIMI Jose (BMB) said:
>
>>Let say the known length is 2.
>>If the string is 'abcd', my array should be ('ab', 'dc')
>>And if my string is 'abcdef', my array should be ('ab', 'dc', 'ef').
>
>I'd just use:
>
>  @groups = $string =~ /../g;  # use ... for three, or .{3}, etc.
>
>You don't need capturing parens in this case.

Although it should probably be /../gs, since . doesn't match newlines by
default.  And following the lead of other regex solutions, you could use
the .{1,$x} approach.

  @groups = $string =~ /.{1,$x}/gs;

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