regex to split on ' ', but skip spaces inside quotes

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Re: regex to split on ' ', but skip spaces inside quotes by artist (Parson) on Sep 21, 2007 at 21:14 UTC
use quotewords from Text::ParseWords `use Text::ParseWords qw(quotewords); my $line = q(hi my name is 'john doe'); @words =quotewords(' ', 0, $line); print join "\n", @words,"\n";` [download] --Artist	[reply] [d/l]
Re: regex to split on ' ', but skip spaces inside quotes by duff (Parson) on Sep 21, 2007 at 21:10 UTC
Rather than thinking in terms of "splitting on spaces", may be it would work better if you thought in terms of "gather the things I want". For instance, would this work for you: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $string = q(hi my name is 'john doe'); my @parts = $string =~ /'.*?'\|\S+/g; print map { "$_\n" } @parts; __END__` [download] ? duff	[reply] [d/l]
Re: regex to split on ' ', but skip spaces inside quotes (3WTDI) by tye (Sage) on Sep 21, 2007 at 23:51 UTC
`my @words= $string =~ /'[^']'\|\S+/g; my @words= $string =~ /'(?:\\.\|[^\\']+)'\|\S+/gs; my @words= $string =~ /'(?:''\|[^']+)*'\|\S+/g;` [download] - tye	[reply] [d/l]