Greetings,
I would suggest using a word boundary \b.
for instance...
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
my $line = "earth, wind & fire";
my @chunks = split /\b/, $line;
print Dumper(\@chunks);
Which produces what you want... well close. If you don't want the spaces around your punctuation marks this
#need the grep to filter for truth!
#basically checking if
#the element is defined/filled-in/not-blank
my @chunks = grep{$_} split /\b|\s/, $line;
should do the trick.
Update!
Upon re-reading your post I am a bit unclear... Do you want to keep the punctuations or not?
if not
#either this
my @no_punct = $line =~ /(\w+)/g;
#or this
my @no_punct = grep{$_}split /\W|\s/, $line;
will work.
-InjunJoel
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use." -Galileo
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