I had a need to match spaces inside double quotes. I was splitting a list of tags on spaces, but ran into problems if there were spaces inside quotes. Take this string for example:
tag1 tag2 tag3 "this makes up tag4" tag5 'this is tag6' tag7
I basically needed this list:
tag1
tag2
tag3
this makes up tag 4
tag5
this is tag 6
tag7
A quick search on stackoverflow.com led me to this regular expression:
m/([^\s"']+|"[^"]*"|'[^']*')/g
Regex for splitting a string using space when not surrounded by single or double quotes - Stack Overflow
tag1 tag2 tag3 "this makes up tag4" tag5 'this is tag6' tag7
I basically needed this list:
tag1
tag2
tag3
this makes up tag 4
tag5
this is tag 6
tag7
A quick search on stackoverflow.com led me to this regular expression:
m/([^\s"']+|"[^"]*"|'[^']*')/g
Regex for splitting a string using space when not surrounded by single or double quotes - Stack Overflow
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