Your employer (or whoever) should consider relaxing to http://green-brick.foobar and http://foo.bar/green-brick. A hyphen is perfectly valid in a server name, and saves you a lot of trouble.

However, there are ways to do what you ask. Here's a very naive approach: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;

# build word list in %words
my %words;
open my $dict, "/usr/dict/words";
chomp, $words{lc $_} = 1 while <$dict>;  # UPDATE:  added 'lc'
close $dict;

my $str = "perfumesmellslikecheese";

$str =~ m{
  ^                          # anchor to beginning of string
  (?{ [ ] })                 # start $^R as an empty array ref
  (?:                        # match this block <<
    (\w{2,})                   # capture 2 or more letters to $1
    (?(?{ $words{lc $1} })     # if lowercase '$1' is in %words...
      (?{ [ @{$^R}, $1 ] })      # add this word to the current list
      |                        # otherwise...
      (?!)                       # fail (force \w{2,} to backtrack)
    )
  )+                         # >> one or more times
  $                          # anchor to end of string
  (?{ print "@{$^R}" })      # print the words (with spaces)
  (?!)                       # fail (cause everything to backtrack)
}x;

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You can make the engine a great deal smarter by making it dynamically adjust -- making it only possible to match things you KNOW to be words, for example.
Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
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In reply to Re: Splitting strings into words when there are no separators by japhy
in thread Splitting strings into words when there are no separators by Anonymous Monk

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