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 suffic

Answer 1

This might be a very late answer, but I am interested in answering

([\w]+|\"[\w\s]+\")

http://regex101.com/r/dZ1vT6/72

Pure javascript example

 'The rain in "SPAIN stays" mainly in the plain'.match(/[\w]+|\"[\w\s]+\"/g)

Outputs:

["The", "rain", "in", ""SPAIN stays"", "mainly", "in", "the", "plain"]