Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't seem too difficult:

> perl -e 'my $x = "0.01 NaN 2.30 4.44";
  my ($d, $e, $f, $g) = ($x =~ /([Na0-9\.\-\0]+\b)/g);
  print "d: $d, e: $e, f: $f, g: $g";'

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output: 

d: 0.01, e: NaN, f: 2.30, g: 4.44

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the /g flag makes it return a list of all matches.

I changed \s+ to \b (word-boundary) since the last piece doesn't have a space after it

In reply to Re: Repeating a capture group pattern within a pattern by WithABeard
in thread Repeating a capture group pattern within a pattern by mldvx4

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