From: Tim Heaney <theaney@...>
Date: 2006-01-07T10:12:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Splitting strings on spaces, unless inside quotes

Richard Livsey <richard@livsey.org> writes:

> 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"]

How about the csv module? Despite the name, you don't have to use
commas.

  require 'csv'
  CSV::parse_line('some words "some quoted text" some more words', ' ')

I hope this helps,

Tim