#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw(say); my $string = 'AAAbcdAAAdcbAAAbbdAAAxAAAA'; my $delimiter = 'AAA'; my @positions; push @positions, pos($string) while $string =~ /(?=$delimiter)/g; for my $from (@positions) { for my $to (grep $_ - length $delimiter > $from, @positions) { say substr($string, $from, $to - $from) . $delimiter; } }