From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-04-24T10:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: nuby: %w to understand quotes

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 10:03 +0900, Pe単a wrote:
> David Corbin [mailto:dcorbin@machturtle.com] :
> 
> # But why?  %w is intended as a shortcut when everthing is a 
> # single word.  For 
> # anything else, use quotes.
> 
> yes, you're right. maybe, i was looking for a shortcut on word or "phrases of words" :)

Perhaps you are looking for shellwords?

require 'shellwords'
Shellwords.shellwords %{this is "just a" test}
# => ["this", "is", "just a", "test"]

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Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk