Name
quotewords
Synopsis
quotewords (delim
,keep
,lines
)
Accepts delimiter and list of lines and breaks the lines into a list of words at occurrences of the delimiter. Exported by default. Takes the following arguments:
delim
Delimiter, which can be a regular expression. Occurrences inside quotes are ignored.
keep
Boolean. If false, quotes and single backslashes are removed from the list of words returned, and a double backslash is returned as a single backslash. If true, quotes and backslashes are retained.
lines
The list of lines to be parsed.
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