From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2008-07-13T06:34:09+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions help

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Vivek <krishna.vivek@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> How do I split the below string into words..Words can be either a
> consecutive set of non whitespace characters or anything withn " "
>
> 'hi hello  "hello world" hey yo'
>
> should return
> [hi, hello, hello world,hey,yo]
>
>
require 'shellwords'
include Shellwords

str = 'hi hello  "hello world" hey yo'

p shellwords(str)


Harry

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