From: fedzor <fedzor@...>
Date: 2008-01-31T04:45:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing a string with quotes


On Jan 30, 2008, at 2:28 PM, Cheri Ruska wrote:

> I am trying to parse out the string:
>
> My dog "ate" my "math homework" and "my cat"
>
> into the array:
>
> [My, dog, ate, my, math homework, and, my cat]
>
> Does anybody know a good way to do this?

require "shellwords"
string = 'My dog "ate" my "math homework" and "my cat"'
array = Shellwords.shellwords string
p array

HTH