Hi, I'm looking for an elegant solution to the following (quite common) problem:
Given a string of substrings separated by white space, split this into tuple/list of elements. The problem are quoted substrings like abc "xy z" "1 2 3" "a \" x" should be split into ('abc','xy z','1 2 3','a " x') For that, one probably has to protect white space between quotes, then split by white space and finally converted the 'protected white space' to normal white space again. Is there an elegant solution - perhaps without using a lexer and something else. With regular expressions alone it seems clumsy. Many thanks for a hint, Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list