in reply to reg-exp problem

Have you considered trying the code and looking at how it splits the input?

In perlre, you find the documentation of how regular expressions are constructed.

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Re^2: reg-exp problem
by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 09, 2008 at 10:59 UTC
    ... and if you don't understand perlre (it's more reference documentation than introduction) read perlretut instead.

    Or you could use the module YAPE::Regex::Explain, which gives you a human readable description of what it matches.

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