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Re: splitting strings [message #42445 is a reply to message #42443]

Thu, 03 February 2005 12:53

Benjamin Hornberger is currently offline

Benjamin Hornberger
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David Fanning wrote:
> Benjamin Hornberger writes:
>
>
>> I would like to split a string by whitespace characters, while anything
>> between quotes should be recognized as one elements (even if it contains
>> whitespace). Let's say I have the string
>>
>> 'cat dog "ground hog" bird'
>>
>> I want to split it into ['cat', 'dog', 'ground hog', 'bird']. Does
>> anybody have a general algorithm or a function to do that? Or do I have
>> to work it out myself?
>
>
> str = 'cat dog "ground hog" bird'
> print, StrSplit(str, "", /Extract)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

Doesn't work, the result is an empty string.

If you use " " as pattern for strsplit (the default), I get ['cat',
'dog', '"ground', 'hog", 'bird'], which is not what I want either.

Benjamin

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		Re: splitting strings By: KM on Sat, 05 February 2005 07:21
		Re: splitting strings By: Benjamin Hornberger on Fri, 04 February 2005 12:06
		Re: splitting strings By: David Fanning on Thu, 03 February 2005 13:04
		Re: splitting strings By: Benjamin Hornberger on Thu, 03 February 2005 12:53
		Re: splitting strings By: David Fanning on Thu, 03 February 2005 12:48

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