On 5/9/07, Ronald J Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:54:49PM -0400, Simon R wrote: > > 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 ? > > > > Try this: > > @parts = $string =~ /((?:"[^"]*"|'[^']*'|[^,])+)/g;
works like a charm ! thanks for the help -Simon (Just make sure your quote characters are properly balanced!) > > Ronald > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
