Re: [Boston.pm] Regexp puzzler

On May 9, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Simon R wrote:

> OK... I've been toying with this for a day now and it's time to set  
> the
> experts loose. I need to be able to split a string of the form

[...]

> foo,bar,names="charlie,john,ann",ages='20,30,40' must be split to

[...]

> Can anyone come up with a single regexp that I can use in a call to  
> split()
> that will handle this case, or another equally elegant solution ?

Regular expressions are not well suited to that.  You want Text::CSV  
or Text::CSV_XS.

Charlton


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