Re^2: Zero-width assertions fail with split

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That makes sense and, as noted, the results aren't entirely suprising, though I confess I struggled with it. Is there some simple way of getting the split behavior to do what I want?

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Re^3: Zero-width assertions fail with split by hv (Prior) on Sep 19, 2005 at 12:00 UTC
You want "not both preceded and followed by TOKEN", which is equivalent to "either not preceded by TOKEN, or not followed by TOKEN", and that we can do: `my $split = qr/ (?<!$token) , \| , (?!$token) /x;` [download] Hugo	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Zero-width assertions fail with split by gargle (Chaplain) on Sep 19, 2005 at 06:16 UTC
Hi, It may be silly, but, doesn't this do what you want? `perl -e '$a = "1,2,---0---,3,4";@f=split ",",$a;map { print $_."\n"} @f'` [download] -- if ( 1 ) { $postman->ring() for (1..2); }	[reply] [d/l]

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