Regex for splitting a string using space when not surrounded by single or double quotes

Question

I\'m new to regular expressions and would appreciate your help. I\'m trying to put together an expression that will split the example string using all spaces that are not s

Answer 1

A couple hopefully helpful tweaks on Jan's accepted answer:

(['"])((?:\\\1|.)+?)\1|([^\s"']+)

• Allows escaped quotes within quoted strings
• Avoids repeating the pattern for the single and double quote; this also simplifies adding more quoting symbols if needed (at the expense of one more capturing group)