[TriLUG] perl: keeping blank when split'ing string on a blank

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Scott Lambdin wrote:

> The wheel has been invented:
> http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Text%3A%3AParseWords

Thanks Scott,

(and thanks too Paul - but I'm going to take Scott's 
solution). When I posted, I was hoping I didn't have to 
parse the input one char at a time. I am counting on the 
user to match quotes - they'll get no matches if they don't.

I even have Text::ParseWords already installed. I don't know 
if it's part of the default installation. The original code 
is from 1994!

I'd previously googled for "parse strings" but found nothing 
useful. Obviously I should have tried "parse words".

Thanks

Joe


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