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G'day sbrothy,

It sounds like you just need "split /\W+/, $string"; although, I don't know what the "C++ Boost" connection is.

$ perl -E 'say for split /\W+/, " THIS is a variable number of words, +spaces and punctuation. "' THIS is a variable number of words spaces and punctuation

Is the string you showed representative of your data? Do you have words with hyphens or apostrophes? Are sentences with leading whitespace normal?

The simplicity of my solution may be invalid. Perhaps you need something closer to:

$ perl -E 'say for split /[ ,.]+/, " THIS is a variable number of word +s, spaces and punctuation. " =~ s/^[ ,.]*//r' THIS is a variable number of words spaces and punctuation

— Ken


In reply to Re: Regex match for Any number of words? by kcott
in thread Regex match for Any number of words? by sbrothy

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