A small utility to parse files containing multi-word strings.

All you need is a C compiler and GNU make. Tested on MacOS, but should run on anything.

Edit the Makefile if you need to and then just run make install. If you want to create a Debian package, run: debuild -i -us -uc -b

A less practical one:

echo "'hi mom' {i can see} (my house) <from here!>" | msplit
hi mom"i can see"my house"from here!"

A practical one:

msplit /var/log/apache.log | cut -d\" -f6 | head -2
GET /SRID/FUNX/RBX/JSON HTTP/1.1
GET /SRID/FUNX/RBX/JSON HTTP/1.1

The following characters are considered opening and closing a quoted string:

start = "([{<`'\"";
close = ")]}>''\"";

• Make matchsplit() not destroy its input.
• Stick matchsplit() in a library.

msplit project by Cris van Pelt [email protected]

matchsplit() code "borrowed" from Wessel Dankers.

Distributed under the terms of the MIT License (see the LICENSE file)