Greetings all,
I am attempting to write a parser to take a line of tokens and insert them into an array.
"What?!", I hear your cry... "Hasn't the man heard of split()?"
Naturally I have, and it served me well - until I've been requested (or sequestered, depending) to make the parser quote-aware.

Take the following string to be parsed:
Token1 Token2 "Little phrase" Token4

Which I need to be able to beat into:
@array = ("Token1", "Token2", "Little phrase", "Token4")

I have written something that somewhat works, but its a nasty kludge and I'm sure there's a talented regex hacker out there who can do this much tidier - and undoubtably faster than my semi-solution.

Thanks muchly, JP Hindin

In reply to Parsing, tokens and strings by Anonymous Monk

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