Re: Elegant quoted word parsing

On Sunday 13 June 2004 02:39 am, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: > On Jun 10, Beau E. Cox said: > >sub parse_words > >{ > >my $line = shift; > >my @words = (); > > > >$_ = $line; [snipped] Thank you, japhy, and others who took the time to help me fix my word parsing script I posted several

Re: Elegant quoted word parsing

On Jun 10, Beau E. Cox said: >sub parse_words >{ >my $line = shift; >my @words = (); > >$_ = $line; You should localize $_ if you're going to be assigning to it explicitly. local $_ = $line; >while( 1 ) { >s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/; This is not a very efficient way to remov

Re: Elegant quoted word parsing

But this output is not at all similar to the output desired in the original post by Beau E. Cox. Your solution merely splits on all delimiters. -ZO "David Storrs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Personally, I would do this: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > use Text::ParseWords

Re: Elegant quoted word parsing

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 10:08:23AM -0500, James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Jun 10, 2004, at 9:46 PM, Beau E. Cox wrote: > > >Hi - > > > >I am trying to come up with a simple, elegant word parsing script, > >that: > > > >* takes a scalar string, and > >* splits it into words separating on white sp

Re: Elegant quoted word parsing

This is certainly shorter, but I doubt it fully adheres to your intent. It produces the same output as your procedure for this string, but it is possible that I changed some of the meaning of what you were trying to do: ---BEGIN CODE--- #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; print joi

Re: Elegant quoted word parsing

On Jun 10, 2004, at 9:46 PM, Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - I am trying to come up with a simple, elegant word parsing script, that: * takes a scalar string, and * splits it into words separating on white space, commas, and a set of delimiters: "" '' // () {} [] ##, and * returns the array of words. [

Re: Elegant quoted word parsing

Beau E. Cox wrote: Does anyone want to help me find elegance? I think it looks pretty nice the way it is :) I do beleive you've found it Beau! ;p Aloha => Beau; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Elegant quoted word parsing

Hi - I am trying to come up with a simple, elegant word parsing script, that: * takes a scalar string, and * splits it into words separating on white space, commas, and a set of delimiters: "" '' // () {} [] ##, and * returns the array of words. So far I have: # -