I made a tool for myself to process JCL's, yes, those old good mainframe stuffs. One thing costed quite some of my time, is to split strings on blanks, but the tricky part is that, if the blank is with a pair of single quots, you should not split. For example: a b c d should be split into a, and b, and c, and d. But a 'b c' d should be split into a, and 'b c', and d. I did it, but I have to write my own version of split. Is there any suggestion? is there any built-in perl stuff I can use? Maybe we need to extend the perl split func in the future, to accept one more parm, for example a ref to a list of escape characters.

In reply to split on spaces, except those within quotes? by pg

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