From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2007-03-16T23:14:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Splitting A String

On Mar 16, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Andrew Stewart wrote:

> Hello,
>
> What's a (good) way to convert this:
>
>   'a quick "brown fox" jumped "over the lazy" dog'
>
> into this:
>
>   [ 'a', 'quick', 'brown fox', 'jumped', 'over the lazy', 'dog' ]

Can quotes be escaped? If not there's a simple regexp that does the job:

   str = 'a quick "brown fox" jumped "over the lazy" dog'
   puts str.scan(/"([^"]*)"|(\w+)/).flatten.select {|s| s}

You can also handle slashes, but it gets uglier.

-- fxn