How to split a string, but also keep the delimiters?

Question

I have a multiline string which is delimited by a set of different delimiters:

(Text1)(DelimiterA)(Text2)(DelimiterC)(Text3)(DelimiterB)(Text4)

Answer 1

Here's a groovy version based on some of the code above, in case it helps. It's short, anyway. Conditionally includes the head and tail (if they are not empty). The last part is a demo/test case.

List splitWithTokens(str, pat) {
    def tokens=[]
    def lastMatch=0
    def m = str=~pat
    while (m.find()) {
      if (m.start() > 0) tokens << str[lastMatch..',/<[^>]+>/],
 ['beforeafter',/<[^>]+>/]
].each { 
   println splitWithTokens(*it)
}