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From: harrison@csl.dl.nec.com (Mark Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: split newbee question
Message-ID: <1991May2.030729.14876@csl.dl.nec.com>
Date: 2 May 91 03:07:29 GMT
Organization: NEC America, C & C Software Development Laboratory
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I would like to split fields on a line, following these constraints:

1.  Fields are whitespace separated words.  This is what I am doing
    now, with split("[ \t]+").  (Can be "optimized" to just "split"?

2.  Fields can have embedded whitespace if in quotes:

	first.field "second field" third-field

3.  Field can be double quoted, double quotes can appear in field
    if preceded by backslash:

		"one \"field\" with quotes"

Any hints appreciated...
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