From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2008-03-19T19:26:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Split string at spaces, but not when inside quotation marks?

Peter Bunyan wrote:
> Is there already a built-in method to do this

require 'shellwords'
Shellwords.shellwords 'Hello "wo rld" how "are \" you today"'
=> ["Hello", "wo rld", "how", "are \" you today"]

HTH,
Sebastian
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