From: Tom Werner <pubsub@...>
Date: 2006-12-21T04:39:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Grabbing quoted substrings

Gavin Kistner wrote:
> From: mitchell
>   
>>> 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"]
>>>
>>>       
>> a.scan(/"([^"]+)"/).flatten
>>     
>
> No need to use flatten if you don't use the (unnecessary) grouping:
>
> a.scan( /"[^"]+"/ )
> or
> a.scan( /".+?"/ )
>
> (Both, of course, assuming no escaped backslashes in the content. It's
> not hard to come up with a regexp that accepts those, though at some
> point perhaps Ara's eval solution is easier.) 
>
>
>   

Though that will capture the surrounding quotes as well, which was not 
specified in the requirements.

Tom Werner