Re: split a string of space separated substrings - elegant solution?

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 22:30 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,

I'm looking for an elegant solution to the following (quite common)
problem:

Given a string of substrings separated by white space,
split this into tuple/list of elements.
The problem are quoted substrings like

abc "xy z" "1 2 3" "a \" x"

should be split into ('abc','xy z','1 2 3','a " x')

import shlex
shlex.split('abc "xy z" "1 2 3" "a \\" x"')
['abc', 'xy z', '1 2 3', 'a " x']

I hope that's elegant enough ;)

--
Carsten Haese
http://informixdb.sourceforge.net


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