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

1st one-liner using String.split()

String s = "This is a string that \"will be\" highlighted when your 'regular expression' matches something.";
String[] split = s.split( "(?

[This, is, a, string, that, "will be", highlighted, when, your, 'regular expression', matches, something.]

don't split at the blank, if the blank is surrounded by single or double quotes
split at the blank when the 255 characters to the left and all characters to the right of the blank are neither single nor double quotes

adapted from original post (handles only double quotes)