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BideoWego/command-line_args.js

Created November 25, 2017 21:39
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Regex to capture command-line arguments separated by spaces but group strings surrounded in quotes
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command-line_args.js
/*
Modified from this SO post:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24069344/split-spaces-avoiding-double-quoted-js-strings-from-a-b-c-d-to-a
*/
/('|")(?:\\('|")|\\\\|[^'|"])*('|")|\S+/
"a b 'c d'".match(/('|")(?:\\('|")|\\\\|[^'|"])*('|")|\S+/g)
//=> [ 'a', 'b', '\'c d\'' ]
'a b "c d"'.match(/('|")(?:\\('|")|\\\\|[^'|"])*('|")|\S+/g)
//=> [ 'a', 'b', '"c d"' ]
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