Parse string with whitespace and quotation mark (with quotation mark retained)

Question

If I have a string like this

create myclass \"56, \'for the better or worse\', 54.781\"

How can I parse it such that the resul

Answer 1

Regex Demo

(\w+|"[^"]*")

Get the matches in the first capture group.

1. \w+: Matches alphanumeric characters and underscore one or more times
2. "[^"]*": Matches anything that is wrapped in double quotes
3. |: OR condition in regex