sorry, i didn't read all your post. def test(s): res = [''] in_dbl = False escaped = False for c in s: if in_dbl: if escaped: res[-1] += c if c != '\\': escaped = False else: res[-1] += c if c == '\\': escaped = True elif c == '"': res.append('') in_dbl = False elif c == ' ': res.append('') elif c == '"': res.append('') res[-1] += c in_dbl = True else: res[-1] += c while '' in res: res.remove('') return res
faulkner wrote: > import re > re.findall('\".*\"|\S+', raw_input()) > > Jim wrote: > > Is there some easy way to split a line, keeping together double-quoted > > strings? > > > > I'm thinking of > > 'a b c "d e"' --> ['a','b','c','d e'] > > . I'd also like > > 'a b c "d \" e"' --> ['a','b','c','d " e'] > > which omits any s.split('"')-based construct that I could come up with. > > > > Thank you, > > JIm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list