in reply to Re^2: Matching and making accesible an arbitrary number of subpatterns w/a regex?
in thread Matching and making accesible an arbitrary number of subpatterns w/a regex?

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;

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