Split a string by whitespace, keeping quoted segments, allowing escaped quotes

Question

I currently have this regular expression to split strings by all whitespace, unless it\'s in a quoted segment:

keywords = \'pop rock \"hard rock\"\';
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Answer 1

I would like to point out I had the same regex as you,

/\w+|"[^"]+"/g

but it didnt worked on empty quoted string such as :

"" "hello" "" "hi"

so I had to change the + quantifier by *. this gave me :

str.match(/\w+|"[^"]*"/g);

Which is fine.

(ex: https://regex101.com/r/wm5puK/1)