From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2007-03-16T23:21:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Splitting A String

On Mar 16, 2007, at 3:14 PM, Xavier Noria wrote:

> 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}

Heh, reading it I recalled there's a more specific idiom for that  
last select:

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

-- fxn