Re: splitting strings with quoted white space

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Randal> my @elements;
Randal> push @elements, $1 while
Randal>   /\G\s*"((?:[^\\"]|\\"|\\\\)*)"/gc or
Randal>   /\G\s*'((?:[^\\']|\\'|\\\\)*)'/gc or
Randal>   /\G\s*([^\s'"]\S*)/gc;

Randal> Leaving undefined something like \X as malformed. :)

Which can be tested with

        die unless /\G\z/g;

:-)

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