From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2004-07-14T23:27:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Split quoted text

Hi,

Michael Weller wrote:
> Can anybody help me with following, it seems like I can find a solution 
> that's shorter than 50LOC and I thought there must be a smarter way to 
> do it...
> My input would be something like "\this is\" \"my text\"" and I want to 
> have an array containing ["\"this is\"", "\"my text\""].
> I know it can't be that hard, but ...

Is quoting " needed?

0% ruby -rcsv -e 'p CSV.parse_line(%["this is" "my text"], ?\s)'
["this is", "my text"]

0% ruby -rcsv -e 'p CSV.parse(%["this is" "my text"|foo bar], ?\s, ?|)'
[["this is", "my text"], ["foo", "bar"]]

Regards,
// NaHi