Why Split when you can Match?
Resurrecting this question because for some reason, the easy solution wasn't mentioned. Here is our beautifully compact regex:
"[^"]*"|[^,]+
This will match all the desired fragments (see demo).
Explanation
- With
"[^"]*", we match complete "double-quoted strings"
- or
|
- we match
[^,]+ any characters that are not a comma.
A possible refinement is to improve the string side of the alternation to allow the quoted strings to include escaped quotes.
