From: George Ogata <g_ogata@...>
Date: 2004-07-15T12:57:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Split quoted text

Charles Mills <cmills@freeshell.org> writes:

> 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\""]

There's also shellwords:

irb(main):001:0> require 'shellwords'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> Shellwords.shellwords('"he said \\"hello\\"" "field"')
=> ["he said \"hello\"", "field"]