Re^2: Separating substrings from a main string


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Re^2: Separating substrings from a main string

by newbie1991 (Acolyte)

on Jan 24, 2013 at 14:29 UTC ( [id://1015176]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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this works, but only for the first instance. As in, @f is >abcd1234, but the correct output should be >abcd1234 >xyz123 Would it be more convenient if $string was an array?

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Re^3: Separating substrings from a main string
by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Jan 24, 2013 at 14:55 UTC

I gave you a template. If you have other requirements please engage your creativity and modify the template to suit you. Here's one way:

$ cat splitter.pl 
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my $foo=qq(> abcd1234
abcd abcd 
>xyz123 
xyz);
$foo =~ s/\n//g;

my @f = split(/[\>]/,$foo);

$_ = '>' . $_ foreach @f;

print Dumper(\@f);



$ perl splitter.pl
$VAR1 = [
          '>',
          '> abcd1234abcd abcd ',
          '>xyz123 xyz'
        ];
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