Phoenix.pm: Regex question

[Doug and Julie Miles]

At 03:36 PM 2/5/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Heh, had to look that up in the <HREF="http://info.astrian.net/jargon/">Jargon
>Dictionary</A>
>
>TMTOWTDI, MBIIYS CTLB
>
>Phil Hartfield
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This was quite an email day for me.  Offended a new guy and confused 
everyone else.  :)  That's what  I get for being in a hurry.  So what is 
GoStats?

>Doug Miles wrote:
> >
> > Anthony Nemmer wrote:
> > >
> > > Jesus, Doug.  =)
> >
> > Sorry.  That wasn't what I meant.  I was just saying TMTOWTDI and
> > welcome to the mailing list!
> >
> > > At 01:07 PM 2/5/01 -0700, you wrote:
> > > >tcpeter at mindspring.com wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Doug Miles wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> > This is probably something obvious,
> > > >>
> > > >> I don't think so...
> > > >>
> > > >> > but I don't have my regex book with
> > > >> > me, and can't seem to figure it out.  I'm trying to parse space
> > > >> > delimited information, somewhat like the UNIX command 
> line.  Whitespace
> > > >> > delimits parameters, but parameters can containg whitespace if
> > > >> > surrounded by quotes.  Here's the code:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > > >> >
> > > >> > my $string = qq(DailyNAV "Class C" nav);
> > > >> >
> > > >> > my @tokens = $string =~ /(\S+)/g;
> > > >> > my @tokens = $string =~ /"([^"]+)"/g;
> > > >>
> > > >> > my @tokens = $string =~ /"([^"]+)"|(\S+)/g;
> > > >> > print join('|', @tokens) . "\n";
> > > >> >
> > > >> > here is the output:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > DailyNAV|"Class|C"|nav
> > > >> > Class C
> > > >> > |DailyNAV|Class C|||nav
> > > >>
> > > >> Doug,
> > > >> I've been sorta lurking here a long time reading, but this is the 
> first
> > > time I've contributed.  This seems to work.  It's really the same as 
> one of
> > > yours, with just a bit of tweaking.
> > > >
> > > >I'll be nice since you're a first time poster. :)
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> #!/usr/bin/perl
> > > >>
> > > >> my $string = qq(DailyNAV "Class C" nav);
> > > >> print join('|', split(/\s?"([^"]+)"\s?/, $string))."\n";
> > > >
> > > >--
> > > >- Doug
> > > >
> > > >Encrypted with ROT-26 - all attempts to decrypt are illegal under the
> > > >DMCA!
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> > --
> > - Doug
> >
> > Encrypted with ROT-26 - all attempts to decrypt are illegal under the
> > DMCA!
> >