in reply to Re^2: split on the pattern of '),('
in thread split on the pattern of '),('

That fails for 
$str = '(1,"(text),(text)", 123),(2,"(string)", 234),(...)';

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Re^4: split on the pattern of '),('
by tobyink (Canon) on Sep 17, 2012 at 19:08 UTC

    No it doesn't. The string you give contains "),(" three times, and my regex splits it at all three.

    use Test::More tests => 5;

my $string = '(1,"(text),(text)", 123),(2,"(string)", 234),(...)';
my @parts  = split m{ [)] [,] [(] }x, $string;

# Prove that the split worked properly...

# Firstly, joining the parts back with '),(' recreates the original st
+ring.
my $joined = join '),(', @parts;
is($joined, $string);

# Secondly, none of the individual parts contain '),('
unlike($_, qr{\Q),(\E}) for @parts;

done_testing();

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    perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'
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      For the input I gave, the code you gave produced: 

      GOT: (1,"(text
GOT: text)", 123
GOT: 2,"(string)", 234
GOT: ...)

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      But surely, it should produce: 

      GOT: 1,"(text),(text)", 123
GOT: 2,"(string)", 234
GOT: ...

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        Your first "GOT" line contains a substring "),(" thus it was not fully split on that substring.

        perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'
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