You could Use REFind() to extract the strings in quotes first. Then you can use ListToArray() on what's left
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Richard White <rich...@j7is.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi, > > we have a string such as the following: > > 'word1 word2 "word3 and word 4" word5 word6' > > we need to split the string into an array with the following criteria: > > - if any part of the string is inside double quotes then this is 1 array > element > - else each individual word is 1 array element > > therefore the string above would be broken down as follows: > > [1] = word1 > [2] = word2 > [3] = word3 and word4 > [4] = word5 > [5] = word6 > > an arraytolist can be used with space as the delimiter for the words but > this of course would conflict with the double quotes, what would be the best > way to achieve this? > > thanks for your help > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:345765 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
