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Hopefully someone can help me here..
I am in the following situation
I need to break up a long sentence to smaller chunk ( eg as a word or string
closed by "    ")

eg  I have the follwoing sentence in a file call  "in.dat"

##   In the Microeconomic we study the overall or "aggregate performance" of
an "economy structure"        ##

and  I want to break it down to

In
the
Microeconomic
we
study
the
overall
or
"aggregate performance"
of
an
"economy structure"

the problem I am having is that I am not able to keep the string that is
enclosed by the  quote(")s as
a whole word..
for example , the output of shell script that I wrote to do the task..
In
the
Microeconomic
we
study
the
overall
or
"aggregate
performance"
of
an
"economy
structure"

in my script , I am unable to preserve "aggregate performance" and "economy
structure"
from being chopped..

can someone help ?

thanks in advance

Chris

echo 'my "somewhat quoted" string' | perl -nle 'print $& while
/".*?"|\S+/g'

Hugo

Python:
import string

test = "this is a really weird test string"

for i in string.split(test, " "):
        print i

C:
char test[] = "this is a really weird test string";
char *word;

word = strtok(test, " ");
while ( (word = strtok(NULL, " ")) != NULL) {
    printf("%s\n", word);

Quote:}

Hope this helps

Quote:> Hi all....

> Hopefully someone can help me here..
> I am in the following situation
> I need to break up a long sentence to smaller chunk ( eg as a word or
string
> closed by "    ")

> eg  I have the follwoing sentence in a file call  "in.dat"

> ##   In the Microeconomic we study the overall or "aggregate
performance" of
> an "economy structure"        ##

> and  I want to break it down to

> In
> the
> Microeconomic
> we
> study
> the
> overall
> or
> "aggregate performance"
> of
> an
> "economy structure"

> the problem I am having is that I am not able to keep the string that
is
> enclosed by the  quote(")s as
> a whole word..
> for example , the output of shell script that I wrote to do the task..
> In
> the
> Microeconomic
> we
> study
> the
> overall
> or
> "aggregate
> performance"
> of
> an
> "economy
> structure"

> in my script , I am unable to preserve "aggregate performance" and
"economy
> structure"
> from being chopped..

> can someone help ?

> thanks in advance

> Chris

%%
\"[^"]*\"       {unf();printf("%s\n",yytext);}
[^ ]*      {printf("%s\n",yytext);}
.          {}
%%
unf() {
  char *p = yytext;
  while (*p != '\0') {
    if (*p == '\n') *p = ' ';
    p++;
  }

Quote:}

(oops, I meant to say wraps onto the next line but somehow I've gotten into vi and I can't fix it eek)
:

Quote:> ##   In the Microeconomic we study the overall or "aggregate performance" of
> an "economy structure"        ##

Wow! Using a blowtorch to lit a stove! Plain ol' ksh does this jus'
fine an' dandy, I reckon.

eval "set -- $(< in.dat)"  # one caveat: no "##"s in in.dat
for a                           # test...
do      print -r -- "$a"
done

-Brian

BTW, how did you eliminate those extra spaces when you exchanged NICE
with ""?

regards,
Rich

Quote:> Chris,
> Not quite the answers you were looking for to solve question 2, are
> they?
> There doesn't seem to be a very clean solution to this double quote
> problem using the BOURNE SHELL.

-----------------------------8<------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
sed -e 's/[][#?\*]/ /g' | while read x
do
  eval set -- $x
  while [ $# -gt 0 ]
  do
    echo $1
    shift
  done
done
-----------------------------8<------------------------------

The sed is just to strip out characters which the shell tokenizer
would treat specially (comments, wild carding) - I might not have
caught everything though.

--
Andrew Gabriel
Consultant Software Engineer