Splitting on Every Second Occurence

mt2k has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Say I have the following string:

$str = "hello=this=is=a=nice=sentence=with=many=equation=signs";
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I wish to split this string up into an array on every second occurence of the '=' sign. Therefore, the structure I wish for is this:

@splitted = ( 'hello=this', 'is=a', 'nice=sentence', 'with=many', 'equ
+ation=signs' );
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My problem is I wonder whether it is possible to do so using the split() command or whether a regex is required to accomplish this task.

I have searched the site and come up with one topic, though I am not sure whether this is the same idea and how I would apply it.

Thanks for the help!

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(jeffa) Re: Splitting on Every Second Occurence by jeffa (Bishop) on May 04, 2002 at 19:59 UTC
I'd use a regex on this one: `my @splitted = $str =~ /([^=]+=[^=]+)=?/g;` [download] jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Splitting on Every Second Occurence by Kanji (Parson) on May 04, 2002 at 20:09 UTC
A regex would be simplest... `push @splitted, $1 while $str =~ /([^=]+=[^=]+)/g;` ... but you could do it with split, too, if you didn't mind a temporary array and some post-split massaging ... `my @temp = split(/=/, $str); push @splitted, join("=", splice(@temp,0,2)) while @s;` [download] --k.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Splitting on Every Second Occurence by belg4mit (Prior) on May 04, 2002 at 21:04 UTC
Not an array but would do just the same; `%F = split /=/, $str;` [download] ; assuming uniqueness in keys and order doesn't matter. Just something to consider. `-- perl -pew "s/\b;([mnst])/'$1/g"`	[reply] [d/l]


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