Combine split with limit and lookahead-assertion! 

  DB<107> $str=join ",",@captures 
 => "http://abc.org,http://de,f.org,https://ghi.org"

  DB<108> split /,(?=https?:)/,$str,1
 => "http://abc.org,http://de,f.org,https://ghi.org"

  DB<109> split /,(?=https?:)/,$str,2
 => ("http://abc.org", "http://de,f.org,https://ghi.org")

  DB<110> split /,(?=https?:)/,$str,3
 => ("http://abc.org", "http://de,f.org", "https://ghi.org")

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you just need to get rid of the unsplitted rest (if any) 

  DB<122> $n=1
 => 1

  DB<123> @array[0..$n-1] = split /,(?=https?:)/ , $str , $n+1
 => "http://abc.org"

  DB<124> $n=2
 => 2

  DB<125> @array[0..$n-1] = split /,(?=https?:)/ , $str , $n+1
 => ("http://abc.org", "http://de,f.org")

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Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

In reply to Re: Capturing substrings with complex delimiter, up to a maximum by LanX
in thread Capturing substrings with complex delimiter, up to a maximum by jkeenan1

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