On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:28:20PM -0400, Donald Leslie {74279} wrote:
> I have a string of the form:
>
> 'a bc "d e f" h "i j"' what I want is the quoted items not
> to split on blanks.
>
> [0] = 'a' , [1] = 'bc' , [2] = 'd e f' ... .
>
> Is there is simple way to do this ?
Assuming that the quoted strings do not contain escaped quotes:
my $string = 'a bc "d e f" h "i j"';
my @parts = grep defined $_, $string =~ /\"([^"]*)\"|(\S+)/g;
If the quoted strings do contain escaped quotes, you can still do it, but
the regex will be more complicated.
Ronald
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