Repeating regex assign to a list

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

Hello Monks I have a string

$a ="aaa bbb ccc dd ee ff dd TAG=lls foo TAG=some randome tag TAG=last
+_tag";
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I want to use a regex to assign a portion of the string ( including whitespace) into different slots in an array there can be any number of TAG=xxxx values. I tried the regex :

 @b = ($a =~ m/aaa bbb .*? (TAG=.*) */g);
 @b = ($a =~ m/aaa bbb .*? {1,}(TAG=.*) */g)
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I used several other permutations of a regex all to no avail. I was hoping that somebody can point me in the right direction. Thank You

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Re: Repeating regex assign to a list by Tanktalus (Canon) on Mar 04, 2016 at 18:10 UTC
Not entirely clear what you want... so I'm guessing a bit. `#!/usr/bin/env perl5.22.1 use strict; use warnings; use 5.10.1; my $x ="aaa bbb ccc dd ee ff dd TAG=lls foo TAG=some randome tag TAG=l +ast_tag"; #my $x ="TAG=lls foo TAG=some randome tag TAG=last_tag"; my @tags = split /\s*TAG=/, $x; # before the first TAG, discard. shift @tags; my $i = 0; say "tag ", $i++, ": [$_]" for @tags;` [download] and the output is: `tag 0: [lls foo] + tag 1: [some randome tag] tag 2: [last_tag]` [download] Is that what you're looking for?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Repeating regex assign to a list by iang (Sexton) on Mar 04, 2016 at 18:49 UTC
It is exactly what I was looking for, only I was trying to be a bit clever (or not) and wanted to shorten it into a single REGEX. --- thank you for your reply	[reply]
Re^3: Repeating regex assign to a list by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Mar 04, 2016 at 20:11 UTC
Tanktalus's split approach is probably better, but here's a "clever (or not) ... single regex" that produces the same output: `c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -le "use 5.010; ;; my $s = 'aaa bbb ccc dd ee ff dd TAG=lls foo TAG=some randome tag TAG +=last_tag'; ;; my @ra = $s =~ m{ TAG \s* = \K (?: (?! \s* TAG) .)* }xmsg; dd \@ra; " ["lls foo", "some randome tag", "last_tag"]` [download] (Needs 5.10+ for the `\K` regex operator.) Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Repeating regex assign to a list by neilwatson (Priest) on Mar 04, 2016 at 18:08 UTC
Please post expect and actual results.And I encourage the methods of How to ask better questions using Test::More and sample data for asking questions. Neil Watson watson-wilson.ca	[reply]
Re: Repeating regex assign to a list by Laurent_R (Canon) on Mar 04, 2016 at 18:08 UTC
~~You need to use parentheses in your regexes if you want to capture parts of the input string.~~ Update: Oops, sorry, I misread your post, you do have some parens. But you need tell us exactly what you want to capture, an example of the input and expected output would be great. The `.*` greedy quantifier after the `TAG=` part is quite suspicious.	[reply] [d/l] [select]