Re: Re: Parsing, tokens and strings

According to my understanding of the original poster's goal, this is NOT the solution to his problem. Contrary to the poster's statement that he needs to make split "quote aware", I think he really wants to make it quote UN-aware, so that he can treat quotes as another delimiter character (this is what the sample assignment statement he offered accomplishes, of the form @array = ( "A", "B" ) being the resulting effect, for an original line of the form A "B"). Unless I'm misunderstanding his intentions, the proper solution would then be something akin to: my @words = split /[\s"']+/ (assuming it's not important to ensure balanced use of quotes)

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Re: Re: Re: Parsing, tokens and strings by merlyn (Sage) on Oct 17, 2001 at 21:02 UTC
Yes, I realized that a few minutes later and fixed it, a few minutes before you submitted your post. {grin} -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Parsing, tokens and strings by Anonymous Monk on Oct 17, 2001 at 21:04 UTC
Oops! Now I see that the original poster's sample assignment was not as simple as I had shown, because he had "B C" where I had "B" (multiple quoted words being treated as a single token, vs. my idea of a single word). This being the case, my suggestion of changing split's delimiters will obviously not work, so "nevermind"! 8-} `Tim Maher tim@consultix-inc.com` [download]	[reply] [d/l]