Re: Regex help

Another way to do this would be with split.

my( $start, $middle, $end ) = split /((?:AB)+)/,$string ;
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Much of a muchness in this case, but it does show the little used technique of using capturing brackets with split to retain the bits that would otherwise be discard, which is sometimes useful.

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Re: Re: Regex help by bart (Canon) on Aug 24, 2003 at 16:25 UTC
No, you really should have done this: `my($start, $middle, $end) = split /((?:AB)+)/, $string, 2;` [download] Try something that contains this pattern twice, and you'll immediately see the difference, as in `$string = "xAByABz";` [download] Yours would have put just "y" into $end, mine takes the entire rest of the string, "yABz".	[reply] [d/l] [select]