I noticed the end '-' thing too. I did add a section to ccn's code that handles that. Its tagged w/ the "# ADDED" comment.

++ btw ccn, took me awhile to wrap my head around this one. 

my $brackets = qr(\[[^\]]*\]); # text enclosed in brackets
my $char = qr([^\[\]\s]); # not spaces or brackets

s{
  (                # group to $1
    (?:
       $char          # a char 
       (?:$brackets*) # followed by any number of brackets
    )
    {3}               # 3 times
  )
  (?!(?:$brackets*)(?:\s|\Z)) # ADDED: eliminates '-' on the end of wo
+rds w/ a multiple of 3 chars
  (?=              # looking forward to ensure that
     [^\[\]]*      # we are not inside of a brackets
     (?:
       \[
       |
       \z
     )
  )
}
{$1-}gx;

print;

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-jbWare

In reply to Re^3: Problem: how to split long words by jbware
in thread Problem: how to split long words by nikos

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