How to ask questions the smart way.

I assume you mean you're using split(m/[A-Z]/, $string), but you didn't make that very clear.

The split() pattern defines what to remove between the chunks you want to keep. Using a m// pattern with captures defines what to keep amongst the rest of the string.

This method catches a list of capitalized chunks, and is the more natural to me: 

my $name = 'JohnJacobJingleheimer-Schmidt';
my @chunks = ($name =~ m/([A-Z][a-z]*)/g);
print $_,$/ for @chunks;

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By using a couple of zero-width assertions, you could use split(), but it will act differently with punctuation cases: 

my $name = 'JohnJacobJingleheimer-Schmidt';
my @chunks = split(m/(?<=[a-z])(?=[A-Z])/, $name);
print $_,$/ for @chunks;

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