This is a nitpick, but.. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com>wrote:
> To get it to capture the sequence of a's and b's, use: > > > @num = split /((?:a|b)+)/, $x; > > To get it to not capture any matches, use the non-capture parentheses: > > > @num = split /(?:(?:a|b)+)/, $x; > split /[ab]+/, $x; makes this a lot less complex : ) Brian.