On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:37:52PM -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> 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;
Aaarggghhh!!
Pretend that the text is CSV, it just uses an odd definition of comma.
Then use the fine module.
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