From: Wayne Blair <wayne.blair@...>
Date: 2001-06-06T01:18:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16240] Re: Parsing Question

Hi Steve,

With Guy's help, I figured out hopefully the cleanest way.  (I know this is
overkill but I have time on my hands.)

def parseCommandLine(aString)
  return aString.scan(/\w+|"(?:\\"|[^"])*"/)
end

Wayne

ps you might also prefer ensuring word breaks with /\b\w+|"(?:\\"|[^"])*"/