Most esteemed monks, I seek your wisdom in finding a more elegant solution to a problem I'm working on. Given a string: Enter Iago, Othello, and  others I want to extract "Iago" and "Othello" to a data structure. My solution is as follows:
use strict; use warnings; # I'm actually reading this from another source, but am hand codin +g # the string here for demonstration purposes. my $char_list = "Iago, Othello, and others"; my @words = split /\W/, $char_list; foreach my $word (@words) { if ($word =~ m/[A-Z]\w+/) { my @entering_chars; push @entering_chars, $word; } }
My present solution works, but it seems like I'm taking a lot of unnecessary steps to get there. If anyone would care to explain how to do this with a regex, or some other method less dependent on a loop, I would much appreciate it.

Update: correction. I'm not looking to capture "Enter," but it's also been split off from the string by the time I get here.


In reply to Seeking a better way to do it by starX

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