Well, you can build up a regexp that recognizes all of your tokens... For example,
  $word = '\w+';
  $path = '(?:/$word)+';

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and so forth, then have
  $pattern = '(?:$path|$word|$number|$operator)';

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or some such. To grab all the tokens off your data string, you could just do
  my @tokenList = ();

  while($data =~ /($pattern)/g) { push (@tokenList, $1); }

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which will parse the string left-to-right (maintaining the order you require) pulling off individual tokens and storing them in an array. You don't even need to worry about the whitespace, because the while(//g) {} will ignore whitespace (if it's not part of your token pattern) and just grab off the tokens...

Hope this helps,
CJW

In reply to Re: Splitting inside an array by Anonymous Monk
in thread Splitting inside an array by DeusVult

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