From: Kenosis <kenosis@...>
Date: 2007-09-14T09:20:03+09:00
Subject: Re: A ruby-esque "split" that respects word groups.

On Sep 13, 5:12 pm, Kenosis <keno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

My cleanest solution thus far, which does not properly handled nested
quotes:

a = "foo 'bar baz bim' 42 'java jruby jar'"
puts a.split("'").each { |b| b.strip! }