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

ES6 solution supporting:

• Split by space except for inside quotes
• Removing quotes but not for backslash escaped quotes
• Escaped quote become quote

Code:

input.match(/\\?.|^$/g).reduce((p, c) => {
        if(c === '"'){
            p.quote ^= 1;
        }else if(!p.quote && c === ' '){
            p.a.push('');
        }else{
            p.a[p.a.length-1] += c.replace(/\\(.)/,"$1");
        }
        return  p;
    }, {a: ['']}).a

Output:

[ 'foo', 'bar', 'lorem ipsum', 'baz' ]