[plug] [Somewhat OT] Regexp guru?

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Kirk Turner wrote:

> Heyas,
> 
> This isn't strictly a linux thing, but figured since regexp is used 
> widely in linux someone might have more of a clue
> than I do :-)

<snip>

Don't use Java so I don't know how good the re support is.  Howvere in perl

---
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

use strict;

my $string= 'this is just a "simple little" test';
my @strings = grep {!/^$/} split(/(\".*\"|[^\s]*)\s/,$string);

print join("\n", at strings),$/;
---

should do what you want.

Yours Tony

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