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Re: splitting strings [message #42446 is a reply to message #42445]

Thu, 03 February 2005 12:48

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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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
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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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