If you capture bracket the split regex, the delimiters will be retained:

$s = "this.that,the other; and this! as well";;

@bits = split /([.,;!])/, $s;;

$_ !~ /[.,;!]/ and $_ = uc for @bits;;

print join'',@bits;;
THIS.THAT,THE OTHER; AND THIS! AS WELL
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A pointless example, but it demos the technique.

If the PATTERN contains parentheses, additional list elements are created from each matching substring in the delimiter.

   1.  split(/([,-])/, "1-10,20", 3);
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produces the list value

   1. (1, '-', 10, ',', 20)
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Thanks, will give those a go :)

Cheers!

Andy

Hi,

This almost works:



my $test = qq|1-10,20 some.thing [[else]],bla bla bla|;
my @temp = split /([,-\s\.\]\[]+)/, $test;
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper(@temp);
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..but for some reason, it doesn't seem to like the ]] bit :



1
-
10
,
20

some
.
thing
 [[
else
]],
bla

bla

bla
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We need it to split at:



[[
]]
,
-
\s
.
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Any suggestions?

TIA!

Andy

This what you're after?

$s = qq|1-10,20 some.thing [[else]],bla bla bla|;;
print "'$_'" for split /([-, .]|\[\[|\]\])/, $s;;
'1'
'-'
'10'
','
'20'
' '
'some'
'.'
'thing'
' '
''
'[['
'else'
']]'
''
','
'bla'
' '
'bla'
' '
'bla'
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my @values = $something =~ /[^.,;!]*[.,;!]/g;
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