Re: Matching and making accesible an arbitrary number of subpatterns w/a regex?

Splitting on the colon might be your best bet if the nature of your data is field-delimited, but you should also be able to achieve the same with:

  my $src_string = 'aaa:bbb:ccc:ddd:eee:';
  my @results = $src_string =~ /([^:]*):/g;
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Hope this helps,
-v.

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Re^2: Matching and making accesible an arbitrary number of subpatterns w/a regex? by Hue-Bond (Priest) on Aug 03, 2006 at 17:36 UTC
That does not work when the string doesn't contain any colon: `my $src_string = 'aaa'; my @results = $src_string =~ /([^:]*):/g; use Data::Dumper; print Dumper \@results; __END__ $VAR1 = [];` [download] -- David Serrano	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Matching and making accesible an arbitrary number of subpatterns w/a regex? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 03, 2006 at 17:43 UTC
It seems to me from the OP's description that it will always end in a semi-colon. If not, add it: `my $src_string = 'aaa:bbb:ccc:ddd:eee'; my @results = "$src_string:" =~ /([^:]*):/g;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Matching and making accesible an arbitrary number of subpatterns w/a regex? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 03, 2006 at 17:34 UTC
Splitting on the colon, you say? `my $src_string = 'aaa:bbb:ccc:ddd:eee:'; my @results = split /:/, $src_string; pop @results;` [download] Update: Oops, I missed the last line of the OP. Well, neither solution populates $1, $2, $3, so I guess neither answers the OP.	[reply] [d/l]