Split a quoted string with a delimiter

Question

I want to split a string with a delimiter white space. but it should handle quoted strings intelligently. E.g. for a string like

\"John Smith\" Ted Barry 
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Answer 1

well, i made a small snipet that does what you want and some more things. since you did not specify more conditions i did not go through the trouble. i know this is a dirty way and you can probably get better results with something that is already made. but for the fun of programming here is the example:

    String example = "hello\"John Smith\" Ted Barry lol\"Basi German\"hello";
    int wordQuoteStartIndex=0;
    int wordQuoteEndIndex=0;

    int wordSpaceStartIndex = 0;
    int wordSpaceEndIndex = 0;

    boolean foundQuote = false;
    for(int index=0;index

this also checks for words that were not separated with a space after or before the quotes, such as the words "hello" before "John Smith" and after "Basi German".

when the string is modified to "John Smith" Ted Barry the output is three strings, 1) "John Smith" 2) Ted 3) Barry

The string in the example is hello"John Smith" Ted Barry lol"Basi German"hello and prints 1)hello 2)"John Smith" 3)Ted 4)Barry 5)lol 6)"Basi German" 7)hello

Hope it helps