Re^2: Split with numbers

This is a good idea in general, but won't work for the OP specific requirement: ABC23 will be split into ABC and 23, but split won't generate a third empty string.

For example:

$ perl -E ' say map { qq{"$_" }}  split /(\d+)/ for qw[ AB23C ABC23 23
+BC ABC ]'
"AB" "23" "C"
"ABC" "23"
"" "23" "BC"
"ABC"
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Re^3: Split with numbers by Anonymous Monk on Nov 24, 2015 at 20:00 UTC
Use of `split` can be stretched for the case of `xyz268` ... `split /([0-9]+)/ , $string , 3` [download] ... but still fails for the case of `xyz`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Split with numbers by Laurent_R (Canon) on Nov 24, 2015 at 21:02 UTC
Yes, you're right, I did not think that specifying a limit to 3 would work properly in this case, and it does, but, as you said, it still won't work in the case of `ABC`: `$ perl -E ' say map { qq{"$_"\t}} split /(\d+)/, $_, 3 for qw[ AB23C +ABC23 23BC ABC ]' "AB" "23" "C" "ABC" "23" "" "" "23" "BC" "ABC"` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]