On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Thomas, Timothy B wrote: > Same problem, here's the output I am getting with your new regular > expression:
> my ($cmd); > ($cmd) = $command=~/^(\S*)\s/; > return $cmd; How about this: my $command_with_args; my $match_nonspace_expect_in_quotes = qr/((?:"[^"]+"|[^ "]+)+)/; $command_with_args =~ /$match_nonspace_expect_in_quotes/; my $command_part = $1; $command_part =~ s/"//g; # Remove quotes return $command_part; # # This works with examples like # '"C:\Program Files\"com"mand".exe "%1"'; # - Eric B. -- "An intelligent carrot! It boggles the mind."