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Old 01-30-2009
Bug Easy Perl regular expression question

Hey all! what matching expression might I use to match all characters included in \W, EXCEPT < and > ?

for example:

@tokens=split(/ ???? /,$string);

I've dubiously tried \W[^<>] but this clips off the first letter of each "token", for some reason ...
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Old 01-30-2009
[^\w<>]

( little w )
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Old 01-30-2009
Beautiful!!
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