in reply to use regex to split sentence

Its much easier to use split:

$_ = "X1aaX2bbX3heeX4...X5loveU";
@match = split (/X\d/,$_);

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Re: Re: use regex to split sentence
by dyno (Initiate) on Nov 01, 2002 at 07:15 UTC
    That's not what I want. 
    aa
bb
hee
...
loveU

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    in fact I realy want to know what pattern can match the result I expected--I mean below: 
    X1aa
X2bb
X3hee
X4...
X5loveU

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      Try this: 

      @match = /X\d[^X]+/g;

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      Basically it slurps up everything that's not an 'X' after doing matching 'X\d'.

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        thanks. in fact, it could be "X1XloveU".and I want it to be matched. this is just a simplified example about my work.
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        in fact, 'X\d'could follow any string apart from 'X\d'. i.e.it could be "X1XXXIloveU". This is just a simplified example about my work. Any idea not let * eat all words followed?
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