Re^6: How to split

[Anonymous Monk]

Adventures in regular expressions, part 7, readability

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict; use warnings;
use Data::Dump;

my $blah = '    VAR DS 0D
        DC    AL1(045),AL2(286),AL2(117),AL2(290)';

my ( $top, $bottom ) = split /[\r\n]+/, $blah;
print "$top\n";

#~ my( $prefix, @biscuits ) = grep length, split /[\s,]+/, $bottom;
#~ my( $prefix, @biscuits ) = split /(?:(?<!^)\s+)|,/, $bottom;
#~ my( $prefix, @biscuits ) = split /(?:(?<!^)\b\s+)|,/, $bottom;
#~ my( $prefix, @biscuits ) = split /(?:(?<!\A)\b\s+)|,/, $bottom;
#~ my( $prefix, @biscuits ) = $bottom =~ /(^\s+\S+)|([^\s\(]+\([^\s\)]
++\))/g;
#~ my( $prefix, @biscuits ) = $bottom =~ /(^\s+\S+|[^\s\(]+\([^\s\)]+\
+))/g;
#~ my( $prefix, @biscuits ) = $bottom =~ /(^\s+\S+|[^\s\(,]+\([^\s\)]+
+\))/g;
my( $prefix, @biscuits ) = $bottom =~ m{
( # $1
    ^\s+\S+  # prefix
    |
    [^\s\(,]+
    \(
        [^\s\)]+
    \)
) # $1
}xsmg;

dd \$prefix, \@biscuits ;

for my $tack ( @biscuits ){
    print "$prefix $tack\n";
}
__END__
$ perl shineon007
    VAR DS 0D
(
  \"        DC",
  ["AL1(045)", "AL2(286)", "AL2(117)", "AL2(290)"],
)
        DC AL1(045)
        DC AL2(286)
        DC AL2(117)
        DC AL2(290)