Comments on: Parsing Quoted Strings in Ruby http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/04/28/parsing-quoted-strings-in-ruby/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:26:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Henrik N http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/04/28/parsing-quoted-strings-in-ruby/#comment-91303 Henrik N Tue, 06 May 2008 08:36:24 +0000 http://mikenaberezny.com/?p=155#comment-91303 Mike: Ooh, full circle. Cool, didn't try that. Mike: Ooh, full circle. Cool, didn’t try that.

]]> By: Mike Naberezny http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/04/28/parsing-quoted-strings-in-ruby/#comment-91228 Mike Naberezny Mon, 05 May 2008 22:37:40 +0000 http://mikenaberezny.com/?p=155#comment-91228 Good catch. Interestingly, tagging a photo on Flickr itself with your string of <code>"a""b"</code> also results in one tag, <code>ab</code>. Good catch. Interestingly, tagging a photo on Flickr itself with your string of "a""b" also results in one tag, ab.

]]> By: Henrik N http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/04/28/parsing-quoted-strings-in-ruby/#comment-91134 Henrik N Mon, 05 May 2008 09:11:48 +0000 http://mikenaberezny.com/?p=155#comment-91134 Note that >> Shellwords.shellwords %{"a""b"} => ["ab"] though. That makes sense in some contexts (shells) but not in others (Flickr-style tag parsing) where you might be tempted to use this lib. See my post http://henrik.nyh.se/2008/03/flickr-style-tag-splitting-in-ruby and the comments for more. Note that

>> Shellwords.shellwords %{”a”"b”}
=> ["ab"]

though. That makes sense in some contexts (shells) but not in others (Flickr-style tag parsing) where you might be tempted to use this lib.

See my post http://henrik.nyh.se/2008/03/flickr-style-tag-splitting-in-ruby and the comments for more.

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