Hello monks, I am using split on a string that contains multiple delimiters and split treats consecutive delimiters as one delimiter instead I want split to return empty array element for every delimiter it finds. Is this possible? Should I parse instead of split? For example: 
# Input string is "ab''c" and ' is the delimiter for split.
# After "ab" there are two delimiters, hence split returns
# an array with 3 elements as show in the output below.
# But I want output to have 4 elements instead of 3. One
# empty array element for every delimiter split encounters

my @arr1 = split("'", "ab''c");
print Dumper(@arr1);

Output:
$VAR1 = 'ab';
$VAR2 = '';
$VAR3 = 'c';

I want the output to be
$VAR1 = 'ab';
$VAR2 = '';
$VAR3 = '';
$VAR4 = 'c';

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Thanks

Update: Thanks to Jethro. My understanding of split was wrong, it returns an array with elements in between the delimiters. His suggestion of returning the array with delimiters, helped me resolve the issue I was dealing with.

In reply to Split with consecutive delimeters by nkuduva

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