Regex. Combination of words block. Need help.

nickwest has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, dear Monks.

$string = 'aaa, bbb, ccc,ddddd;eee-12345abc Qwerty';

I need to get an array which consist of

'aaa, bbb,  ccc,ddddd;eee-12345abc Qwerty'
'aaa, bbb'
'aaa, bbb,  ccc'
'aaa, bbb,  ccc,ddddd'
'aaa, bbb,  ccc,ddddd;eee-12345abc'
'bbb,  ccc,ddddd;eee-12345abc Qwerty'
'bbb,  ccc'
'bbb,  ccc,ddddd'
'bbb,  ccc,ddddd;eee-12345abc'
'ccc,ddddd;eee-12345abc Qwerty'
'ccc,ddddd'
'ccc,ddddd;eee-12345abc'
'ddddd;eee-12345abc Qwerty'
'ddddd;eee-12345abc'
'eee-12345abc Qwerty'
'aaa'
'bbb'
'ccc'
'ddddd'
'eee-12345abc'
'Qwerty'
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The word may consist [\w\-\/\_]
The delimiter is \s+ or , or ;

I think a decision should be like this
@a = @string =~ /............../gi;
Please help to complete the regexp.

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Re: Regexp. Combination of words block. Need help. by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 09, 2020 at 10:47 UTC
Why do you need to do this all in one regular expression? Also, do you mean that the space in front of `ccc` should be treated differently from the space between `abc Qwerty`? Also, why does `Qwerty` not show up as a separate string in your other examples? If you want a simple approach, just split the string on `/[;,\s]+/` to get an array, and then get all the sub-sequences of that array: #!perl use strict; use warnings; my $string = 'aaa, bbb, ccc,ddddd;eee-12345abc Qwerty'; my @items = split /[,;\s]+/, $string; for my $i (0..$#items) { for my $j ($i..$#items) { print join " - ", @items[ $i .. $j ]; print "\n"; }; } __END__ aaa aaa - bbb aaa - bbb - ccc aaa - bbb - ccc - ddddd aaa - bbb - ccc - ddddd - eee-12345abc aaa - bbb - ccc - ddddd - eee-12345abc - Qwerty bbb bbb - ccc bbb - ccc - ddddd bbb - ccc - ddddd - eee-12345abc bbb - ccc - ddddd - eee-12345abc - Qwerty ccc ccc - ddddd ccc - ddddd - eee-12345abc ccc - ddddd - eee-12345abc - Qwerty ddddd ddddd - eee-12345abc ddddd - eee-12345abc - Qwerty eee-12345abc eee-12345abc - Qwerty Qwerty [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Regex. Combination of words block. Need help. by tybalt89 (Monsignor) on Feb 09, 2020 at 15:48 UTC
`#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11112671 use warnings; my $string = 'aaa, bbb, ccc,ddddd;eee-12345abc Qwerty'; my @a; $string =~ m{ (?<![-\w/])[-\w/] .* (?<=[-\w/])(?![-\w/]) (?{ push @a, $& }) (*FAIL) }x; use Data::Dump 'dd'; dd \@a;` [download] Outputs: `[ "aaa, bbb, ccc,ddddd;eee-12345abc Qwerty", "aaa, bbb, ccc,ddddd;eee-12345abc", "aaa, bbb, ccc,ddddd", "aaa, bbb, ccc", "aaa, bbb", "aaa", "bbb, ccc,ddddd;eee-12345abc Qwerty", "bbb, ccc,ddddd;eee-12345abc", "bbb, ccc,ddddd", "bbb, ccc", "bbb", "ccc,ddddd;eee-12345abc Qwerty", "ccc,ddddd;eee-12345abc", "ccc,ddddd", "ccc", "ddddd;eee-12345abc Qwerty", "ddddd;eee-12345abc", "ddddd", "eee-12345abc Qwerty", "eee-12345abc", "Qwerty", ]` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Regexp. Combination of words block. Need help. by Anonymous Monk on Feb 09, 2020 at 10:48 UTC
Why that array? Id use split	[reply]
Re^2: Regexp. Combination of words block. Need help. by nickwest (Initiate) on Feb 09, 2020 at 11:23 UTC
`$b = 'aaa,bbb,ccc ddd; eee fff, kv.6 end'; @a = split(/[\s\,\.\;]+/, $b); for ($i=0;$i<$#a-1;$i++) { $_ = $b; $k = $a[$i]; s/^.*$k[\s\,\.\;]+//; push @c, $_; } push @a, @c, $b; foreach (@a) { print "$_\n"; }` [download] and get: `aaa bbb ccc ddd eee fff kv 6 end bbb,ccc ddd; eee fff, kv.6 end ccc ddd; eee fff, kv.6 end ddd; eee fff, kv.6 end eee fff, kv.6 end fff, kv.6 end kv.6 end 6 end aaa,bbb,ccc ddd; eee fff, kv.6 end` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Regexp. Combination of words block. Need help. by nickwest (Initiate) on Feb 09, 2020 at 11:30 UTC
Yes! Thank you! I'm going by your way. Firstly split! But I think it's possible make by one regex.	[reply]