Help in query using regular expression

HI,
I need a help to get the below output using regular expression query. Please help me.
SELECT REGEXP_SUBSTR ('PWRPKG(P/W+P/L+CC)', '[^+]+', 1, lvl) val, lvl
FROM DUAL,(SELECT LEVEL lvl FROM DUAL
CONNECT BY LEVEL <=(SELECT MAX ( LENGTH ('PWRPKG(P/W+P/L+CC)') - LENGTH (REPLACE ('PWRPKG(P/W+P/L+CC)','+',NULL))+ 1) FROM DUAL));
I need the output as
correct result:
==============
val lvl
P/W 1
P/L 2
CC 3
But i tried the above it is not coming the above result. Please help me where i did a mistake.
Thanks in advance

Frank gave you a solution in your other thread. You could simplify it if you are on 11g:
SQL> select * from table_x
  2  /
TXT
TECHPKG(INTELLI CC+FRT SONAR)
PWRPKG(P/W+P/L+CC)
select  txt,
        regexp_substr(
                      txt,
                      '(.*\()*([^+)]+)',
                      1,
                      column_value,
                      null,
                      2
                     ) element,
        column_value element_number
  from  table_x,
        table(
              cast(
                   multiset(
                            select  level
                              from  dual
                              connect by level <= regexp_count(txt,'\+') + 1
                   as sys.OdciNumberList
  order by rowid,
           column_value
TXT                                      ELEMENT    ELEMENT_NUMBER
TECHPKG(INTELLI CC+FRT SONAR)            INTELLI CC              1
TECHPKG(INTELLI CC+FRT SONAR)            FRT SONAR               2
PWRPKG(P/W+P/L+CC)                       P/W                     1
PWRPKG(P/W+P/L+CC)                       P/L                     2
PWRPKG(P/W+P/L+CC)                       CC                      3
SQL>  SY.

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