From: Kenosis <kenosis@...>
Date: 2007-09-14T09:15:15+09:00
Subject: A ruby-esque "split" that respects word groups.

Greetings friends,

I wondering if anyone here has some Ruby-fu they can share with WRT
for following problem.  I've toyed with this today and don't like my
solution so I thought I'd run it by y'all.  In summary, suppose we
have the following input, say to a command line interpreter:

foo bar "baz 42" "matz ruby yarv" jruby

Running split on this string, of course, yeilds:

['foo', 'bar', '"baz', '42"', '"matz', 'ruby', 'yarv"', 'jruby']

What I'd like instead is a "split" that respects the quoted word
groupings, which would result in the following instead:

['foo', 'bar', 'baz 42', 'matz ruby yarv', 'jruby']

Thanks in advance for any ideas you can lend!

Cheers,

Ken