Regular Expression problem

[godfather2]

I'm having a regular expression issue that I need some help with. I
have a string which looks something like this

"25 A 24 A AA A 99 A CC"

I need to take the 2 character elements and put them into an array,
and each 2 character code is separated by " A " (i.e., space A space).
I have been using a Split function something like this:

Split(strTemp, " A ")

but I came across the above string which has an "AA" 2 character code,
and instead of getting "AA" as an element in the array, I got:

"AA A 99"

I don't understand why the space A space expression is not working!
Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Shawn Corey]

Re: Regular Expression problem

I don't understand what Split(strTemp, " A ") means. To do your split, try:

split /\s+A\s+/, $strTemp;

godfather2 wrote:
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> I'm having a regular expression issue that I need some help with. I
> have a string which looks something like this
>
> "25 A 24 A AA A 99 A CC"
>
> I need to take the 2 character elements and put them into an array,
> and each 2 character code is separated by " A " (i.e., space A space).
> I have been using a Split function something like this:
>
> Split(strTemp, " A ")
>
> but I came across the above string which has an "AA" 2 character code,
> and instead of getting "AA" as an element in the array, I got:
>
> "AA A 99"
>
> I don't understand why the space A space expression is not working!
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks![/color]