Re^3: Split string after 14 Line Feeds? (//g)

[tye]

in reply to Re^2: Split string after 14 Line Feeds? (//g)
in thread Split string after 14 Line Feeds?

Indeed. I conflated two similar techniques: getting a list of matches from /(...)/g and getting a list of matches from /(...)(...)(...)/. You don't get a list of matches from /(...)*/ (nor from /(...)*/g).

What I should have written was:

my @chunks = $description =~ /\G((?:[^\n]*\n){14}|.+)/gs;

(tested even; works even)

Update: Changed last * to + to eliminate extra empty string in result that I just noticed which is due to "quirk" in Perl regex processing (something I think we should just 'fix', but that is a story for another node, one I've written at least once already).

[johnfl68]

Thank you very much! That works great!