in reply to Help perlifying this string parse-o-rama

Relatively straight forward:

$s = "firstfield second field KNOWNWORD alwaysOneWord then one or more
+ make the last field";;

@fields = $s =~ m[(\S+)\s(.+)\sKNOWNWORD\s(\S+)\s(.+)];;

print join '|', @fields;;
firstfield|second field|alwaysOneWord|then one or more make the last f
+ield

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