$sentence = " he PP
       study VB
       A~~~language~A NP
       and CC
       play VB
       A~~~game~A NP
       .";
$_ = $sentence;
while (m/(A~~~([^~]+)~A)/g) 
{  
	# debug print
	print $1 . "\t" . $2 . "\n";
	
	# Remove our match
	push @parts, $2;
	$_ =~ s/$1//g;
}

$sentence = $_;

# print the bits we took out
foreach (@parts)
{
	print $_ . "\n";
}

# print the new sentence
print $sentence . "\n";

##</code><code>##

 $sentence = "A~~~one~A and A~~~two~A";
 $sentence =~ m/A~~~(.*)~A/g;
 print $1;