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

No need to mess with split when you just want to divide up a string of the same chars:

use strict;
use warnings;

use Test::More tests => 1;

my $in = 'aaaaaaaaa';
my $want = 'aa aa aa aa a';

my $have = join ' ', ($in =~ /a{1,2}/g);
is $have, $want;
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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 22:29 UTC
I had an inkling that split could do this, but was approaching it from too complicated a place. Starting to get the feeling I should have `perldoc -f split` now. This is a clean and efficient way of doing this with match though, thanks I like the simplicity of the test structure, allowing for documenting attempts. That's really great.	[reply] [d/l]