In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Jan 8, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes said:
>
>>I prefer (at least sometimes) to see golf worked out interactively, on
>>the list.
>
>I'm not sure I understand. Shall I show my code?
Yes.
> -n $\=$/;$,=':';print/("[^"]*"|[^\s#]+)\s*(?:#.*)?/g
Close. I said: "The surrounding quotes are themselves not part of the
field", so the quotes should not get printed. Also, I said: "Fields
are separated by 1 or more whitespace characters", so "x"x is one 4
character field, not two 1 character fields.
