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2012 Nov 29
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splitting a string by space except when contained within quotes
I've been trying to split a space delimited string with double-quotes in R
for some time but without success. An example of a string is as follows:
/rainfall snowfall "Channel storage" "Rivulet storage"/
It's important for us because these are column headings that must match the
subsequent data.
Here is some code I've been trying:
str <- 'rainfall snowfall "Channel storage" "Rivulet storage"'
regex <- "[^\\s\"']+|\"([^\...