Re: Regex repeating capture

Jay wrote:
I'm trying to break an input string into multpile pieces using a series of delimiters that start with an asterisk. Following the asterisk is a mulitple character identifier immediately followed by a
data string of variable length. Here is a simple example:
*CZ1 2.3 4-56 *fuuuS24364 08 23 72
I'd like to break this into
CZ
1 2.3 4-56
fuuu
S24364 08 23 72

I have tried the pattern (?:\*(CZ|fuuu)(.*)), which produces the
following ouput:
CZ
1 2.3 4-56 *fuuuS24364 08 23 72
How can I force it to repeat the capturing?

You can force the repeated capturing by the /g flag
on the regex.

Your complete solution should look, if I
guessed correct from your riddle, sth. like:

...
my $simple = q{*CZ1 2.3 4-56 *fuuuS24364 08 23 72 *AAA3 44 5-66};
my %hits;

$hits{$1} = $2 while $simple=~/\*([a-z]+|[A-Z]+)([^*\\z]+)/g;

print "$_ ==> $hits{$_}\n" for keys %hits;
...

This would print (on the above data):
CZ ==> 1 2.3 4-56
AAA ==> 3 44 5-66
fuuu ==> S24364 08 23 72


But your problem is not really completely specified ...

Regards

M.

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