Dear brethren,

here is my problem. I have a string, say 'E/stYna~ko/', and I want to split it into single letters, except '/' and '~' should be grouped with the preceding letter (they never appear at the beginning of the string) I.e. the desired output in the above case is 'E/ s t Y n a~ k o/'. Sounds like a job for split, right? Only that I can't get it to work properly. Here's what I have tried so far: 

$x = 'E/stYna~ko';
print join (' ', split /(\w[^\/~])/, $x); #->E/ st  Yn a~ ko /
print join (' ', split /(\w(?!\/~))/, $x); #-> E / s  t  Y  n  a ~ k  
+o
print join (' ', split /([^\/~])/, $x); #-> E / s  t  Y  n  a ~ k  o
print join (' ', split /(?!\/~)/, $x); #->E / s t Y n a ~ k o

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Yes, I know I could first split into individual characters and then go through the array and join the '/' and '~' with the preceding characters, but can't split give me the correct solution right away?

Puzzled, pike

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