Re: [flexcoders] How to split a String on spaces but including Quoted Phrases?

2010-08-02 Thread Nick Middleweek
Guys, I missed this one... Thank you for your replies... I'll check out the code and see what works. I did end up writing a string parser but I'm now curious to see how RegEx stands up to the task. Cheers, Nick On 29 July 2010 23:30, Oleg Sivokon wrote: > > > Ouch, actually, it has a flaw, bu

Re: [flexcoders] How to split a String on spaces but including Quoted Phrases?

2010-07-29 Thread Oleg Sivokon
Ouch, actually, it has a flaw, but I'm not sure you need a fix for that, but it's possible to fix it, if you want. It only checks for the double quotes, when it checks for the non-quoted words, but it checks for both single and double quoted groups of words. If you need both single and double quote

Re: [flexcoders] How to split a String on spaces but including Quoted Phrases?

2010-07-29 Thread Oleg Sivokon
Sorry to chum in :) var re:RegExp = /(("|').*(?=\2)\2)|(\s[^\s"]+(?!\s"))/g; var text:String = .toString(); var result:Object; while (result = re.exec(text)) { trace(result[0]); }

RE: [flexcoders] How to split a String on spaces but including Quoted Phrases?

2010-07-29 Thread Keith Reinfeld
p://keithreinfeld.home.comcast.net/> http://keithreinfeld.home.comcast.net From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nick Middleweek Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:20 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] How to split a String on spaces but in

[flexcoders] How to split a String on spaces but including Quoted Phrases?

2010-07-28 Thread Nick Middleweek
Hi, I haven't been able to work out regex yet so apart from looping and parsing a string manually, is there anyway of parsing the following string... flex "action script" parse string function into the following Array... [0] = flex [1] = action script [2] = parse [3] = string [4] = function T