dj,
i assume that fixed width means fixed number of chars.
this is not tricky with kix.
if you want to get say 10th colmun in 25 char columns, read it with substr($line,10*25,25)

but I assume you have more to this.
it's not hard, you just need to specify just little more detail on the format and oh, it will be given to you.

cheers,
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