From: Kevin Olbrich Date: 2006-08-08T02:45:51+09:00 Subject: Re: Simple question: combine a quoted string into a single token On Tuesday, August 08, 2006, at 2:40 AM, Squeamizh wrote: >Hi, > >I have a program which separates each line of a text file into tokens, >using whitespace as a delimiter (I do this with String.split). This >suits my needs for the most part, but now I need the ability to treat >quoted strings as single tokens. Note that the quoted string could be >multiple words, or even a 0-length string. > >Could anyone recommend a basic strategy for doing this? Should I deal >with this when I first tokenize each line, or should I combine tokens >appropriately during parsing when I see a double-quote? > >Help would be greatly appreciated. > > You could pull out all the quoted strings into an array and then delete them from the original before processing it normally. _Kevin www.sciwerks.com -- Posted with http://DevLists.com. Sign up and save your mailbox.