>>>>> "SR" == Simon R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SR> OK... I've been toying with this for a day now and it's time to set the
SR> experts loose. I need to be able to split a string of the form
SR> foo,bar',name=simon,age=99
SR> into its constituent parts (comma is the delimeter). So far so good and
SR> very simple using split(). However, I also need to be able to handle the
SR> case where there may be commas in a phrase enclosed by quote marks, in
which
SR> case we should NOT split on those commas;
SR> e.g.
SR> foo,bar,names="charlie,john,ann",ages='20,30,40' must be split to
SR> foo
SR> bar
SR> names="charlie,john,ann"
SR> ages='20,30,40'
this seems to do the trick. it does assume no quotes inside a quoted
value. that can be handled with escape detection via lookbehind before
the matching quote.
uri
while( <DATA> ) {
print "$1\n" while /(\w+(=(\w+|(['"])[^'"]+\4))?),?/g ;
}
__DATA__
foo,bar',name=simon,age=99
foo,bar,names="charlie,john,ann",ages='20,30,40'
output is:
foo
bar
name=simon
age=99
foo
bar
names="charlie,john,ann"
ages='20,30,40'
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