Array from a string.

From: Richard S Beckett (spikeywan_at_bigfoot.com.delete.this.bit)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:31:45 +0100

I've written a nice little script, and it gets it's array of data from the
command line arguments.

If you enter something like this: myscript.pl one two "three four" five

then the @ARGV array will contain:

one

two

three four

five

Which is EXACTLY what I want.

Now, as people seem to have an aversion to DOS these days, I've added a GUI
to the script, so that running it with no arguments fires up the gui
version.

I get my aray from an entry box...

my $entrybox = $mw -> Entry(-textvariable => \$array) -> pack();

The problem is I can't use an array for the text variable, so I have to
convert the string $array into @array.

If I do this:

@array = split(' ', $array);

Entering: one two "three four" five

gives @array of:

one

two

"three

four"

five

I was just trying to sort this out, when I realised it's an absolute
nightmare if I loop through @array, and try to if /^\".*\"/ etc.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks, 

--
R.
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