Comments on: Parsing Quoted Strings in Ruby http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/04/28/parsing-quoted-strings-in-ruby/ Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:51:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: Taylor Carpenter http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/04/28/parsing-quoted-strings-in-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-142138 Taylor Carpenter Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:04:54 +0000 http://mikenaberezny.com/?p=155#comment-142138 >> s = "a b "c d" e" >> s += " f 'g h' i" >> s => "a b "c d" e f 'g h' i" >> a = s.split(%r{["']([^"]*)["']|\s}) >> a.delete("") >> a => ["a", "b", "c d", "e", "f", "g h", "i"] >> s = “a b “c d” e”
>> s += ” f ‘g h’ i”
>> s
=> “a b “c d” e f ‘g h’ i”

>> a = s.split(%r{["']([^"]*)["']|\s})
>> a.delete(“”)
>> a
=> ["a", "b", "c d", "e", "f", "g h", "i"]

]]> By: Henrik N http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/04/28/parsing-quoted-strings-in-ruby/comment-page-1/#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-page-1/#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-page-1/#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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