13:45 <isene> I'm in need of some advanced regex magic; I need this: "aaa bbb ccc/'ddd eee/fff ggg' hhh/jjj 'kkk lll'" to become this: ["aaa", "bbb", "ccc/'ddd eee/fff ggg'", "hhh/jjj", "'kkk lll'"] --- I've tried all the combinations that I can think of, like .scan(/(?:\w|\S'[^']*')+/) but I just can't make it work. The purpose is to split a string by space - but not when there is a substring quoted with single

13:45 <isene> quotes. Any wizards in here who can cast a spell in my direction?

14:46 <adam12> isene: Does this work? ([^\s']+|'.+?')

14:57 <kjetilho> adam12: no, see the third element in desired result.

14:57 <kjetilho> I think this works: x.split(%r{(\S*'.*?'|\s+)}).filter { |e| e !~ %r{^\s*$} }

14:58 <kjetilho> (taking advantage of split returning the split string as well when the pattern is enclosed in parenthesis, and just removing the split strings we don't care about.

15:02 <adam12> kjetilho: Ah yes. I see the difference. Interesting.

16:18 <adam12> isene: Quickly wrote up this approach that doesnt' use regexp. https://gist.github.com/adam12/0b3539641a7294a2b43d4ad1d951ee36

18:52 <isene> kjetilho: Yes, that works - but I'm a bit worried about performance, and this is the reason I was leaning to .scan - since what I'm actually using is a gsub; See here for the actual code to syntax highlight on the rsh commandline (the .c is an extension to the String class adding colors in terminal); https://gist.github.com/isene/256decf2520f9fd65052e60c00ca630b

18:54 <isene> And with further tweaking... this does it :) .scan(/(?:\S'[^']*'|[^ '])+/)

18:56 <Sampersand> Speaking of regex, I still have yet to find usages of `(?~) lol