On Jan 9, 2008 6:54 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a serties of strings
>
> john doe
> sam f smith
> joe s thomas jr
>
>
> i need a regex that will return each word in the string. I have tries
> variations on (.*)\b(.*) but i can't get it. what is the proper
> syntax?
Have you considered using split?
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
while (<DATA>) {
my @name_parts = split;
print join(", ", @name_parts), "\n";
}
__DATA__
john doe
sam f smith
joe s thomas jr
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