"Niki Estner" wrote:

> "Corey Snow" <Corey Snow@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> news:0C47C5C9-597A-48BA-8A01-273915C50D17@microsoft.com...
> > Hi all. I'm trying to craft a regular expression to help me tokenize a
> > string
> > containing mixed content. The string would be something like:
> >
> > foo "bar baz" fuz
> >
> > or another variant thereof. What I'm trying to accomplish is to use a
> > RegEx
> > and get the following out of the above string:
> >
> > foo
> > bar baz
> > fuz
> >
> > However, I can't seem to figure out what I should use as a regular
> > expression to acheive the desired result. I'm also thinking that it might
> > not
> > be possible to do this easily with a regex, in which case I'll just fall
> > back
> > to manually breaking up the string. However, any insight would be
> > appreciated.
> >
>
> Will this expression work?
> ("[^"]*")|(\w*)
>
> It seems to do so in Expresso.
>
> Niki
>

> Hi all. I'm trying to craft a regular expression to help me tokenize a
> string
> containing mixed content. The string would be something like:
>
> foo "bar baz" fuz
>
> or another variant thereof. What I'm trying to accomplish is to use a
> RegEx
> and get the following out of the above string:
>
> foo
> bar baz
> fuz
>
> However, I can't seem to figure out what I should use as a regular
> expression to acheive the desired result. I'm also thinking that it might
> not
> be possible to do this easily with a regex, in which case I'll just fall
> back
> to manually breaking up the string. However, any insight would be
> appreciated.
>

>
>
> "Niki Estner" wrote:
>
>> "Corey Snow" <Corey Snow@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> news:0C47C5C9-597A-48BA-8A01-273915C50D17@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi all. I'm trying to craft a regular expression to help me tokenize a
>> > string
>> > containing mixed content. The string would be something like:
>> >
>> > foo "bar baz" fuz
>> >
>> > or another variant thereof. What I'm trying to accomplish is to use a
>> > RegEx
>> > and get the following out of the above string:
>> >
>> > foo
>> > bar baz
>> > fuz
>> >
>> > However, I can't seem to figure out what I should use as a regular
>> > expression to acheive the desired result. I'm also thinking that it
>> > might
>> > not
>> > be possible to do this easily with a regex, in which case I'll just
>> > fall
>> > back
>> > to manually breaking up the string. However, any insight would be
>> > appreciated.
>> >
>>
>> Will this expression work?
>> ("[^"]*")|(\w*)
>>
>> It seems to do so in Expresso.
>>
>> Niki
>>
>
> The expression ("[^"]*")|(\s*) does seem to work- with the "\w", it leaves
> out any tokens outside the quotation marks.