On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Massi <massi_...@msn.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have to parse a string and splitting it by spaces. The problem is > that the string can include substrings comprises by quotations which > must mantain the spaces. What I need is to pass from a string like: > > This is an 'example string' > > to the following vector: > > ["This", "is", "an", "example string"] > > Which is the best way to achieve this? >
This sounds a lot like the way a shell parses arguments on the command line. If that's your desire, python has a module in the standard library that will help, called shlex (http://docs.python.org/library/shlex.html). Particularly, shlex.split may do exactly what you want out of the box: Python 2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 >>> import shlex >>> s = "This is an 'example string'" >>> shlex.split(s) ['This', 'is', 'an', 'example string'] >>> -- Jerry
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