parsings strings: extracting words and phrases [JavaScript]

Question

I need to support exact phrases (enclosed in quotes) in an otherwise space-separated list of terms. Thus splitting the respective string by the space-character is not sufficient anymore. Example: input : 'foo bar "lorem ipsum" baz' output: ['foo', 'bar', 'lorem ipsum', 'baz'] I wonder whether this could be achieved with a single RegEx, rather than performing complex parsing or split-and-rejoin operations. Any help would be greatly appreciated! JavaScript questions and answers, JavaScript questions pdf, JavaScript question bank, JavaScript questions and answers pdf, mcq on JavaScript pdf, JavaScript questions and solutions, JavaScript mcq Test , Interview JavaScript questions, JavaScript Questions for Interview, JavaScript MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions)

Answer 1

var str = 'foo bar "lorem ipsum" baz'; var results = str.match(/("[^"]+"|[^"\s]+)/g); ... returns the array you're looking for. Note, however: Bounding quotes are included, so can be removed with replace(/^"([^"]+)"$/,"$1") on the results. Spaces between the quotes will stay intact. So, if there are three spaces between lorem and ipsum, they'll be in the result. You can fix this by running replace(/\s+/," ") on the results. If there's no closing " after ipsum (i.e. an incorrectly-quoted phrase) you'll end up with: ['foo', 'bar', 'lorem', 'ipsum', 'baz']