From: Charles Mills <cmills@...>
Date: 2004-07-14T23:56:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Split quoted text


On Jul 14, 2004, at 5:51 AM, Michael Weller wrote:

> David A. Black wrote:
>
>> Hi --
>>
>> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Michael Weller wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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 ...
>>>
>>
>> p '"this is" "my text"'.scan(/"[^"]+"/)
>> # => ["\"this is\"", "\"my text\""]
On that note, if you have escaped quotes you can use the following:
p '"he said \"hello\"" "field"'.scan(/"(?:\\.|[^"])*?"/)
# => ["\"he said \\\"hello\\\"\"", "\"field\""]
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>>
> Yes, I think that's exactly what I searched... Thanks a lot!
>
> Michael
>