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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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