From: Matthew Moss <matthew.moss.coder@...>
Date: 2006-01-07T10:54:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Splitting strings on spaces, unless inside quotes

> some words "some quoted text" some more words
>
> would get split up into:
>
> ["some", "words", "some quoted text", "some", "more", "words"]

s = 'some words "some quoted text" some more words

sa = s.split(/"/).collect { |x| x.strip }
(0...sa.size).to_a.zip(sa).collect { |i,x| (i&1).zero? ? x.split : x }.flatten