From: ara howard <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-01-31T04:43:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing a string with quotes


On Jan 30, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Cheri Ruska wrote:

> My dog "ate" my "math homework" and "my cat"



cfp2:~ > cat a.rb
string = 'My dog "ate" my "math homework" and "my cat"'

re = %r/["'][^"']+["']|\w+/

tokens = string.scan re

puts tokens



cfp2:~ > ruby a.rb
My
dog
"ate"
my
"math homework"
and
"my cat"



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