Re^2: Complex Splitting

[Roy Johnson]

I don't think it's a lot trickier. This oughta do it:

@array = grep defined, split /(\[.*?\])|/;

That is, if you split on a bracketed group, capture it. If you don't have a bracketed group, split on nothing. Then filter out where the capture didn't match.

[johngg]

Yes, I regretted the word "lot" as soon as I'd posted, made it sound as if I'd sweated blood writing it. Although I like the simpler approach of your solution there is one problem with it; it doesn't get rid of the square brackets, which was required by the OP.

Cheers,

JohnGG

[Roy Johnson]

Hasty reading on my part. Not capturing the brackets is as simple as leaving them outside the capturing parentheses:

@array = grep defined, split /\[(.*?)\]|/;