Re: Splitting multiline string into words, the stuff between words, and newlines

You can also use split for that in order to not require a regular expression for matching non words:

my @fragments = grep length, split /(\b{wb}.+?\b{wb}|\n+)/, $book;
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So, you get words, sequences of new lines and then everything else.

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Re^2: Splitting multiline string into words, the stuff between words, and newlines by ibm1620 (Hermit) on Feb 24, 2022 at 12:50 UTC
This looks to me like it should work, but it splits the strings of non-words into separate characters! `"For example ...\n" -> {For}{_}{example}{_}{.}{.}{.}{$}` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Splitting multiline string into words, the stuff between words, and newlines by salva (Canon) on Feb 25, 2022 at 09:22 UTC
That is because `\b{wb}` matches between those signs. This seems to solve the issue: `my @fragments = grep length, split /(\b{wb}\w.*?\b{wb}\|\n+)/, $book;` [download] But my knowledge of Unicode and the `\b{wb}` semantics is rather limited so that may have other issues.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Splitting multiline string into words, the stuff between words, and newlines by LanX (Saint) on Feb 25, 2022 at 10:22 UTC
Not sure 'cause that's 'bout words also including non \w characters. And some of 'em even start on apostrophe ;) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re^5: Splitting multiline string into words, the stuff between words, and newlines by salva (Canon) on Feb 25, 2022 at 11:00 UTC
Re^6: Splitting multiline string into words, the stuff between words, and newlines by LanX (Saint) on Feb 25, 2022 at 11:11 UTC
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Re^4: Splitting multiline string into words, the stuff between words, and newlines by ibm1620 (Hermit) on Feb 26, 2022 at 21:00 UTC
For my purposes, this is fine. I'm mainly interested in capturing possessives and contractions.	[reply]