hi trummelbummel,

..but I am reversing it for the above reasons to: dIonly c ....................................workset((.......)) and I need the items in the workset as well...

Maybe something like this could help: 

use warnings;
use strict;

my $node =
'workset((ab;joiret;garg)) c wasdobao; erhgahufdgah; c workset((adsghl
+ia) c aghaoeriarg;oi c aasdfgohaerg c workset(empty) c ah;sorguiaerg 
+c aoi;hgruio;ghaer c playA c dIonly ';

my $modified = join q{ } => reverse split /\s+/ => $node;

# you could print modified to see the reversed string

if ( my @dat = $modified =~ /\(\(?(.+?)\)/g ) {
    print "@dat\n";    # prints empty adsghlia ab;joiret;garg
}

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You might have to look into the documentations mentioned by AnomalousMonk.
Hopes that helps.

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In reply to Re: regex - problem with the loop I believe or maybe the regex itself ? by 2teez
in thread regex - problem with the loop I believe or maybe the regex itself ? by trummelbummel

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