From: Eero Saynatkari <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2006-01-07T10:00:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Splitting strings on spaces, unless inside quotes

On 2006.01.07 09:08, Richard Livsey wrote:
> I want to split a string into words, but group quoted words together 
> such that...
> 
> some words "some quoted text" some more words
> 
> would get split up into:
> 
> ["some", "words", "some quoted text", "some", "more", "words"]
> 
> So far I'm drawing a blank on the 'Ruby way' to do this and the only 
> solutions I can think of are turning out to be fairly ugly.
> 
> Any advice would be great. Thanks in advance.

Naively, you can try something like this:

   s = 'foo bar "baz quux" roo'
   s.scan(/(?:"")|(?:"(.*[^\\])")|(\w+)/).flatten.compact

Elaborate as necessary (add support for single quotes or something).

> R.Livsey


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