the substring can conatin commas in it
Sorry, this doesn't make sense to me. If the input string is "1,2,3,4,5,6,7", then does $a get "1,2", or does $b get "2,3", and so on...
Or is this CSV, as swl correctly pointed out? Then you should use Text::CSV.
If not, then as I said, please provide lots of examples of valid input with the expected output, as well as lots of examples of invalid input.
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"a ,b,c,d,e" is okay (space with substring) but one space or more (without any symbols) isn't valid. For example: "a, ,c,d,e" or "a,b,c, d,e" are not valid.
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Ok I understand, forget about commas in the substrings.
your regex is good and its what I need except it doesn't handle an empty space case: "a,b,c, d,e" (bad case).
how can I add it to the regex?
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Again, more examples please. Only literal spaces? I am guessing you mean one or more spaces? What about other whitespace? Is " x ,..." valid? Is " x y ,..."? What is the expected output for those cases? And so on.
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