SPUG:Split question

[Dan Ebert]

You could do:

$string = "a,b,c,d,e,f,";
@array = split /,/, $string;
print join(',', @array), "\n";

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Dan Ebert      <mathin at mathin.com>
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On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 14:26, Thane Williams wrote:
> I've often found myself wishing there were an option to split a string
> while retaining the characters you split with. For example:
> 
> $string = "a,b,c,d,e,f,";
> @array = split /,/, $string;
> print "@array\n";
> 
> Would print
> a, b, c, d, e, f,
> instead of
> a b c d e f
> 
> Has anyone else wished this? Does anyone have any suggestions? I'd find
> this particularly useful when I'm dividing up big files based on
> complicated strings, and I want to preserve those strings in the chunks.
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