Re: Regex to extract multiple occurrences

Personally, I would use two steps

Extract the text you want using a regex
Split the text using split

But, to solve your problem, try

my (@rep) = /It contains (?:\s*([^,]+)+,)\s*([^\.]*)\./;
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Re^2: Regex to extract multiple occurrences by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 11, 2004 at 04:27 UTC
That regexp doesn't work. It returns 'apples', 'pears, peaches'. See my post for the reason both your solution and the OP's solution don't work. ++ for suggesting split, however.	[reply]
Re^2: Regex to extract multiple occurrences by Crackers2 (Parson) on Sep 11, 2004 at 04:20 UTC
Looks like two steps is the easiest way to go indeed. Your regex bunches up all of the occurrences except for the first one into a single capture, so I'd still have to split it and might as well make the capture include the first element as well	[reply]