How to parse a command line with regular expressions?

Question

I want to split a command line like string in single string parameters. How look the regular expression for it. The problem are that the parameters can be quoted. For exampl

Answer 1

there's a python answer thus we shall have a ruby answer as well :)

require 'shellwords'
Shellwords.shellsplit '"param 1" param2 "param 3"'
#=> ["param 1", "param2", "param 3"] or :
'"param 1" param2 "param 3"'.shellsplit