On Sep 13, 5:45 pm, James Edward Gray II <ja... / grayproductions.net>
wrote:
> On Sep 13, 2007, at 7:15 PM, Kenosis wrote:
>
> > I wondering if anyone here has some Ruby-fu they can share with WRT
> > for following problem.  I've toyed with this today and don't like my
> > solution so I thought I'd run it by y'all.  In summary, suppose we
> > have the following input, say to a command line interpreter:
>
> > foo bar "baz 42" "matz ruby yarv" jruby
>
> > Running split on this string, of course, yeilds:
>
> > ['foo', 'bar', '"baz', '42"', '"matz', 'ruby', 'yarv"', 'jruby']
>
> > What I'd like instead is a "split" that respects the quoted word
> > groupings, which would result in the following instead:
>
> > ['foo', 'bar', 'baz 42', 'matz ruby yarv', 'jruby']
>
>  >> require "shellwords"
> => true
>  >> Shellwords.shellwords(%q{foo bar "baz 42" "matz ruby yarv" jruby})
> => ["foo", "bar", "baz 42", "matz ruby yarv", "jruby"]
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> James Edward Gray II

Yes, Jame - that helps a lot :)

Best,

Ken