how to split string by space but escape spaces inside quotes

[ur]

I have a string like this:

"Video or movie"    "parent"    "Media or entertainment"    "1" "1" "1" "0" "0"

I would like to split it by the spaces but the space inside the quote(both double and single quotes) should be ignored. So the splitted strings should be:

"Video or movie"
"parent"
"Media or entertainment"
"1"

[SadBunny]

Something like this?

#include<Array.au3>

Local $x = '"Video or movie"    "parent"    ''Media or entertainment''    "1" "1" "1" "0" "0"'

Local $a = StringRegExp($x, '["''].*?["'']', $STR_REGEXPARRAYGLOBALMATCH)

_ArrayDisplay($a)

 

[AutoBert]

This is a other possible solution:

#include <Array.au3>

$sText='"Video or movie"    "parent"    "Media or entertainment"    "1" "1" "1" "0" "0"'
$aText=StringSplit($sText,'"', $STR_ENTIRESPLIT)
For $i=$aText[0] To 1 Step -1
    If StringStripWS($aText[$i],8)='' Then _ArrayDelete($aText,$i)
Next
$aText[0]=UBound($aText)-1
_ArrayDisplay($aText)

 

[ur]

1 hour ago, SadBunny said:

Something like this?

#include<Array.au3>

Local $x = '"Video or movie"    "parent"    ''Media or entertainment''    "1" "1" "1" "0" "0"'

Local $a = StringRegExp($x, '["''].*?["'']', $STR_REGEXPARRAYGLOBALMATCH)

_ArrayDisplay($a)

 

This is no splitting if I give the string as below

$string = "ERwin-PC ERwin-PC\erwin Notallowed1!"

[ur]

1 hour ago, AutoBert said:

This is a other possible solution:

#include <Array.au3>

$sText='"Video or movie"    "parent"    "Media or entertainment"    "1" "1" "1" "0" "0"'
$aText=StringSplit($sText,'"', $STR_ENTIRESPLIT)
For $i=$aText[0] To 1 Step -1
    If StringStripWS($aText[$i],8)='' Then _ArrayDelete($aText,$i)
Next
$aText[0]=UBound($aText)-1
_ArrayDisplay($aText)

 

 

[mikell]

6 minutes ago, ur said:

This is no splitting if I give the string as below

$string = "ERwin-PC ERwin-PC\erwin Notallowed1!"

Obvious. This string contains no quotes ^^

#include<Array.au3>

Local $x = "ERwin-PC ERwin-PC\erwin Notallowed1!" 
msgbox(0,"", $x)
Local $a = StringRegExp($x, '["''].*?["'']', 3)
_ArrayDisplay($a)

Local $x = '"ERwin-PC ERwin-PC\erwin Notallowed1!" '
msgbox(0,"", $x)
Local $a = StringRegExp($x, '["''].*?["'']', 3)
_ArrayDisplay($a)

 

[ur]

Yeah, but my requirement is to split the string with space as delimiter and to skip the splitting if the space is inside the quotes...

[ur]

Don;t know whether it is best one but I came up with this.

 

Func SplitSpaceNotInQuotes($sString)
    $aString = StringSplit($sString, "", 2)
    _ArrayDisplay($aString)
    $iStart = 0
    For $i=0 to UBound($aString)-1
        if ($aString[$i]="""" or $aString[$i]="'") and $iStart=1 then $iStart = 0

        if ($aString[$i]="""" and (Mod(UBound(StringSplit(_ArrayToString($aString,"",$i), """")),2) = 0)) or ($aString[$i]="'" and (Mod(UBound(StringSplit(_ArrayToString($aString,"",$i), "'")),2) = 0)) then
            $iStart=1
        EndIf
        if $iStart = 1 then
            if $aString[$i]=" " then $aString[$i]="æ"
        EndIf
    Next
    $sStringModified = _ArrayToString($aString,"")
    MsgBox(0,"",$sStringModified)
    For $b=1 to UBound($aString1)-1
        $aString1[$b]=trimQuotes($aString1[$b])
        $aString1[$b]= StringReplace ( $aString1[$b], "æ", " ")
    Next
        return $aString
EndFunc

 

[SadBunny]

Ah, ok, how about this then...

#include<Array.au3>

Local $x = 'So this is    Christmas... "Video or movie"    "parent"    ''Media or entertainment''    "1" "1" "1" "0" "0"'

Local $a = StringRegExp($x, '["''].*?["'']|[^ ]+', $STR_REGEXPARRAYGLOBALMATCH)

_ArrayDisplay($a)

 

[jchd]

Does this work for you?

Local $s = '"Video or movie"  no_quotes  "parent"  ''action or drama''   "Media or entertainment"    "1" ''2" "3"'' "0" "0"'
Local $a = StringRegExp($s & " ", '(?|(".*?") +|(''.*?'') +|([^ "'']+) +)', 3)
_ArrayDisplay($a)

 

[ur]

Thanks  SadBunny and jchd..

Your codes are working for me..

Can you guide me how to learn this Regular Expression syntax.

[jchd]

The help file under StringRegExp is a concise primer, then use RegExp site to exercise and debug. The definitive documentation is in PCRE website (refer to PCRE1, not PCRE2).

[AutoBert]

8 hours ago, ur said:

Yeah, but my requirement is to split the string with space as delimiter and to skip the splitting if the space is inside the quotes...

exactly this does my example for your demo data: