Question

I have a line:

$myline = 'ca,cb,cc,cd,ce';

I need to match ca into $1, cb into $2, etc..

Unfortunately

$myline =~ /(?:(\w+),?)+/;

doesn’t work. With pcretest it only matches ‘ce’ into $1.
How to do it right?
Do I need to put it into the while loop?

Answer 1

Why not use the split function:

@parts = split(/,/,$myline);

split splits a string into a list of strings using the regular expression you supply as a separator.