From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-01-07T13:01:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Splitting strings on spaces, unless inside quotes

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Tim Heaney wrote:

> 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,

briliant!

-a
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