Word break problem

This implementation does not necessarily find every combination, it returns the one with the longest matching tokens.

my @words = <a bc abc cd b>;
my $regex = @words.join('|');

put "$_: ", word-break($_) for <abcd abbc abcbcd acdbc abcdd>;

sub word-break (Str $word) { ($word ~~ / ^ (<$regex>)+ $ /)[0] // "Not possible" }

Output:

abcd: a b cd
abbc: a b bc
abcbcd: abc b cd
acdbc: a cd bc
abcdd: Not possible

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