Your employer (or whoever) should consider relaxing to
http://green-brick.foobar and
http://foo.bar/green-brick. A hyphen is perfectly valid in a server name, and saves you a lot of trouble.
However, there are ways to do what you ask. Here's a very naive approach:
#!/usr/bin/perl -l
use strict;
use warnings;
# build word list in %words
my %words;
open my $dict, "/usr/dict/words";
chomp, $words{lc $_} = 1 while <$dict>; # UPDATE: added 'lc'
close $dict;
my $str = "perfumesmellslikecheese";
$str =~ m{
^ # anchor to beginning of string
(?{ [ ] }) # start $^R as an empty array ref
(?: # match this block <<
(\w{2,}) # capture 2 or more letters to $1
(?(?{ $words{lc $1} }) # if lowercase '$1' is in %words...
(?{ [ @{$^R}, $1 ] }) # add this word to the current list
| # otherwise...
(?!) # fail (force \w{2,} to backtrack)
)
)+ # >> one or more times
$ # anchor to end of string
(?{ print "@{$^R}" }) # print the words (with spaces)
(?!) # fail (cause everything to backtrack)
}x;
You can make the engine a great deal smarter by making it dynamically adjust -- making it only possible to match things you KNOW to be words, for example.