I am sure one of the gurus probably has a cool regex to do this, but I haven't gotten to that book yet ;-)........
One solution and by no means the fastest or shortest, would be to split on space, then step through your returned list checking the beginning of each element, if that element starts with a " then set a flag, then continue stepping through the array looking at each element and concatenating it together until you find an element that ends with ", then unset your flag and push the concatenated string to a separate array and keep going. For elements that do not begin with a " while your flag is unset you know they are single elements and can be pushed directly to the array, same goes for elements that both start and end with the ". You didn't seem to want the code, so I leave that to you, from a procedural standpoint that is how it *could* be done. http://danconia.org Octavian Rasnita wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to split a string but it is a little too complicated for me. > If it is too complicated, don't give me an answer but just a little hint to > the right direction. > > I have a string like the following example (used to search in a search > engine): > > "perl editor" free "blind accessible" > > I would like to split this string in such a way, so I would have 3 strings: > > perl editor > free > blind accessible > > In the string I could have no sub strings included in "" or more than 2 like > in my example. > > Thank you very much for the hint. > > Teddy, > My dear email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
