How can I split a string by whitespace unless inside of a single quoted string?

Use Text::ParseWords :! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Text::ParseWords; my @words = parse_line('\s+', 0, "abcd efgh 'ijklm no pqrs' tuv"); use Data::Dumper; print Dumper \@words Output: C:\Temp> ff $VAR1 = 'abcd', 'efgh', 'ijklm no pqrs', 'tuv' You can look at the source code for Text::ParseWords::parse_line to see the pattern used.

Use Text::ParseWords: #! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Text::ParseWords; my @words = parse_line('\s+', 0, "abcd efgh 'ijklm no pqrs' tuv"); use Data::Dumper; print Dumper \@words; Output: C:\Temp> ff $VAR1 = 'abcd', 'efgh', 'ijklm no pqrs', 'tuv' ; You can look at the source code for Text::ParseWords::parse_line to see the pattern used.

" question I have ever had about Perl has been quickly answered by "Use this module that does exactly what you want. " – Jergason Mar 17 '10 at 3:40 Figures there is a package to do exactly what I need. I wasn't sure what I was looking for.

You're a rock star, thanks! – Kivin Mar 17 '10 at 4:24 4 @Jergason blame it on the wonderful people who, when they don't find exactly what they need, and have to write it themselves, CPAN the result afterwards. :) – hobbs Mar 17 '10 at 4:36 And then blame the wonderful people who write CPAN modules that use every other possible CPAN module, no matter how tiny, so that you must pull in ten other mostly-useless modules.

– Zan Lynx Mar 17 '10 at 23:31 @zan FWIW, Text::ParseWords is in the core. Also, modules or distributions with giant dependency lists are not that common. – Sinan Ünür Mar 17 '107 at 0:11.

Use strict; use warnings; my $text = "abcd efgh 'ijklm no pqrs' tuv 'xwyz 1234 9999' 'blah'"; my @out; my @parts = split /'/, $text; for ( my $i = 1; $i.

Now you have two problems. Allow me to infer a little bit. You want an arbitrary number of fields, where a field is composed of text without containing a space, or it is separated by spaces and begins with a quote and ends with a quote (possibly with spaces inbetween).

In other words, you want to do what a command line shell does. You really should just reuse something. Failing that, you should capture a field at a time, with a regex something like: ^ *(^ +|'^'*')(.*) Where you append group one to your list, and continue the loop with the contents of group 2.

A single pass through a regex wouldn't be able to capture an arbitrarily large number of fields. You might be able to split on a regex (python will do this, not sure about perl), but since you are matching the stuff outside the spaces, I'm not sure that is even an option.

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