From: Alex LeDonne <aledonne.listmail@...>
Date: 2008-01-31T04:53:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing a string with quotes

On Jan 30, 2008 2:28 PM, Cheri Ruska <liquid_rails@yahoo.com> 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?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Cheri

irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
=> false
irb(main):002:0> require 'faster_csv'
=> true
irb(main):003:0> arr = FasterCSV.parse_line( 'My dog "ate" my "math
homework" and "my cat"', {:col_sep => ' '})
=> ["My", "dog", "ate", "my", "math homework", "and", "my cat"]