Re: splitting headache

I'd use a regex like:

print "$_\n" for "'Pugh.Pugh'.Barney.McGrew.Cuthbert.Dibble.Grub"=~/('
+.+?'|".+?"|[^\.]+).?/g
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Update: Or maybe

/('(?:[^'\\]*|\\.)+'|"(?:[^"\\]*|\\.)+"|[^\.]+).?/g
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Re: Re: splitting headache by Wibble (Beadle) on Feb 26, 2002 at 14:30 UTC
Thanks a lot for the answer -- this is perfect. The first regex works just fine for me and seems to handle nested "''" and '""' ok too, which is an advantage. You seem like the regex king; the 2nd regex looks very impressive -- erm what does it do?	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: splitting headache by Ido (Hermit) on Feb 26, 2002 at 15:14 UTC
The second regex is for escaping quotes with '. Like: 'Blah.Blah\'blah'. I'm not sure about it tho...	[reply]