Maarten Deen wrote: > I've tried a few things, but I'm not fluent in perl. My problem at the moment > is > that splitting a line on the space character seems logical, but you run into > problems if a value has a space in it. > So splitting something like <tag k="name" v="foo bar"/> will split the value > "foo bar" also.
You have to be fluent in regexes, not perl as such. The trick is to match the quote, then to match anything that is not a quote, followed by a quote. #!/usr/bin/perl my $str = "<tag k=\"name\" v=\"foo bar\"/>"; $str =~ /k="([^"]*)" v="([^"]*)"/; my ($k, $v) = ($1, $2); print "k = '$k', v = '$v'\n"; Difficulty: are values with quotes allowed in k/v pairs? -- Lennard _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
