Hi, I'm trying to solve a problem with some code I've inherited. The code uses Regex::Assemble to create a compiled regex of some 400 words. The problem is that I need to be able to split the input record based on the matches found by the regex. Due to various issues (which I won't go into) I cannot change the way that the regex is being built via Regex::Assemble
Here is a sample of the input records

insert newtab values(1) drop table newtab
create table XXXX (field1 int null) insert XXXX values(1) grant select
+ on XXXX to sa drop table XXXX
create table XXXX (field1 int null) insert XXXX values(1) grant select
+ on XXXX to sa drop table XXXX rollback tran
create table XXXX (field1 int null) sp_help XXXX 
insert XXXX values(1) grant select on XXXX to sa drop table XXXX rollb
+ack tran
lock table cDsnJbgnd..smfJwDlwb in share mode
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For this example the regex is built from this file

create table ([a-z]|[_])+
insert \b([a-z]|[_])+\b 
lock table
grant
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This is what the regex produces

(?-xism:(?ig:(?:create table ([a-z]|[_])+|insert \b([a-z]|[_])+\b |loc
+k table|grant)))
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Each record ($rec) is read in from a database via DBI::DBD and interrogated like this

# Build regex list
open KEYS,"patterns" or die "Can't open the pattern file: $!";
my $exp = Regexp::Assemble ->new(flags => 'ig',chomp => 1) ->add( <KEY
+S> );
close KEYS;

$exp->track( 1 );

while (get the database records) {

if ($exp->match($rec) ) {
      # populate a csv file for a spreadsheet
          } 
}
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The problem is that some of the input records are multi-statement commands (i.e. they contain more than one matched pattern) and I need to be able to split the record up into it's constituent commands (where the split would be on a matched regex pattern) and process each bit seperately before printing to the csv file.
e.g. this record

create table XXXX (field1 int null) insert XXXX values(1)
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Needs to be processed as

create table XXXX (field1 int null)
insert XXXX values(1)
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Can somebody explain to me how to do this assuming I have to use Regex::Assemble to do the pattern match (and the sql to extract the records cannot be changed either !) ?
Ta

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