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I wasn't going to reply after merlyn took all the fun out of it by pointing at somebody else's wheel. (: Beside, the first thing that popped into my head required that you have a character that you knew wasn't in the string (a sure sign of a bad hack). Then I had a flash...

s#"([^"]*)"# my $i= $1; $i =~ tr/ /"/ #ge; my @list= grep { tr/"/ / || 1 } split / +/;

Note that this has several disadvantages over a good module:

  • You can't escape quotes (neither inside nor out).
  • Unmatched quotes are silently processed in a rather strange way.
  • tabs do not separate fields.
  • Only one type of quoting is supported.

So it is probably still a bad hack.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to RE: Another for those who love the Regular Expression questions... by tye
in thread Another for those who love the Regular Expression questions... by Hot Pastrami

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