Re: Can split split against more than one character in a string of the same character?

split returns the separators when there are captures in the separator regex. So you can simply do

D:\ENV>perl -e "$x = qq#aaaaaaa#; print join '#', split /(..)/, $x"
#aa##aa##aa#a
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and grep away the empty elements.

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Re^2: Can split split against more than one character in a string of the same character? by Don Coyote (Hermit) on Jul 15, 2019 at 22:23 UTC
Ah, I did think about placing dots in the backward assertion for a brief moment, but even that is ott. I can just split into an array and join that on print. Thanks	[reply]