From: Tom Werner <pubsub@...>
Date: 2006-12-21T02:58:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Grabbing quoted substrings

Bil Kleb wrote:
> OK, I give up, what's the elegant method to
> grab the quoted substrings in the following,
>
>  a = 'variables="x", "y", "z", "rho", "u", "v", "w", "p/pinf", "s", 
> "mach"'
>
> I want an array like,
>
>  ["x", "y", "z", ..., "mach"]
>
> The methods I've come up with so far are
> embarrassingly hideous.
>
>

This should do the trick:

a.scan(/"(.*?)"/).flatten

Tom Werner