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If you need to work with Unicrap, er.. Unicode, use Unicode named property assertions.

print for split /\P{Alnum}+/, '&#945;&#946;&#950;#!&#1488;&#1513;<>!&#
+1046;&#1048;&#1059;+sdfg.%12';

&#945;&#946;&#950;
&#1488;&#1513;
&#1046;&#1048;&#1059;
sdfg
12

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Sigh. Imagine that those were not automatically converted to HTML codepoints.

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Re^3: requesting small regex
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 07, 2012 at 18:35 UTC
    magine that those were not automatically converted to HTML codepoints.

    Posting (small) quantities of Unicrap is the one time (I think) that <pre></pre> tags are justified.

    I'm guessing that \P is 'not the named class'; and that {Alnum} is alpha-numeric. Is theRE no \P{Numeric}?

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      I'm guessing that \P is 'not the named class';

      Good guess

      and that {Alnum} is alpha-numeric. Is theRE no \P{Numeric}?

      Yes, but it is spelled \P{Digit}. perldoc perlre has details.

      Note: I am replying more for the OPs benefit then yours. I am fully aware that you know about perldoc perlre, and are likely a far better perl programmer than I.

      Cheers

      BTW the OP DID want to split on non-alphanumerics not just non-numerics. Ok, (s)he did say non-alphanomerics but... ;-)

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