Java Regex - Split string on spaces - Ignore spaces in quotes and escaped quotes [duplicate]

Answer 1

String stringToSplit = This is the string to split;

String[] split = stringToSplit.split("character to split at");

In this case, split[0] would result as ' This ', split[1] would be ' is ', split[2] would be ' the ', split[3] ' string ' split[4] ' to ' split[5] ' split '.

At this point you can do

var0 = split[0];
var1 = split[1];
var2 = split[2];

Where var0 would equal "This" And so on...

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Regex like this will work for simple cases:

("(.+?)(?<![^\\]\\)")|\S+

But I would not suggest to use RegEx for this task, but take a look at CSV parsers instead.