OK... I've been toying with this for a day now and it's time to set the experts loose. I need to be able to split a string of the form
foo,bar',name=simon,age=99 into its constituent parts (comma is the delimeter). So far so good and very simple using split(). However, I also need to be able to handle the case where there may be commas in a phrase enclosed by quote marks, in which case we should NOT split on those commas; e.g. foo,bar,names="charlie,john,ann",ages='20,30,40' must be split to foo bar names="charlie,john,ann" ages='20,30,40' Can anyone come up with a single regexp that I can use in a call to split() that will handle this case, or another equally elegant solution ? TIA - Simon Rosenthal Northern Light Technology LLC _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
