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in reply to Re^4: split on the pattern of '),('
in thread split on the pattern of '),('

For the input I gave, the code you gave produced:

GOT: (1,"(text GOT: text)", 123 GOT: 2,"(string)", 234 GOT: ...)

But surely, it should produce:

GOT: 1,"(text),(text)", 123 GOT: 2,"(string)", 234 GOT: ...

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Re^6: split on the pattern of '),('
by tobyink (Canon) on Sep 30, 2012 at 08:13 UTC

    Your first "GOT" line contains a substring "),(" thus it was not fully split on that substring.

    perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'
      Yes, and yours did split in the middle of the string.