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From: brian@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Brian Yanny)
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Subject: Quoted Split for perl?
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Date: 27 Jun 90 18:24:47 GMT
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Does anyone have a 'quoted split' subroutine?
that is, it would do things like this:

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$a='this string has "embedded quote marks" dont ya know';

@out=do quoted_split(' ',$a);

for ($i=0;$i<=$#out,$i++){
	print "$i $out[$i]\n";
}

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When run would produce:

0 this
1 string
2 has
3 embedded quote marks
4 dont
5 ya 
6 know

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It could get fancier and handle either '"' or "'" (nested) too.