From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2006-12-21T05:20:12+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.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Bil Kleb
> http://

a = 'variables="x", "foo\"bar", "\"\"", "rho", "u", "p/pinf", "mach"'

x = a.scan( /"((?:\\.|.)*?)"/ ).flatten
p x
puts x

---  output  -----
["x", "foo\\\"bar", "\\\"\\\"", "rho", "u", "p/pinf", "s", "mach"]
x
foo\"bar
\"\"
rho
u
p/pinf
s
mach