From: Mikel Lindsaar <raasdnil@...>
Date: 2008-03-19T18:02:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Split string at spaces, but not when inside quotation marks?

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Peter Bunyan <peter.bunyan@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to be able to split a string at the space, unless the spaces are
>  inside question marks. I've got a solution, but it makes baby Jesus cry:

string = 'This is one solution "that uses a while loop" but I think
"someone can do it with map"'
quotes = []
while string =~ /".*?"/
  quotes << string.slice!(/".*?"/)
end
p quotes + string.split(' ')

#=> ["\"that uses a while loop\"", "\"someone can do it with map\"",
"This", "is", "one", "solution", "but", "I", "think"]


Mikel
http://lindsaar.net/