Regex split string preserving quotes in javascript

Question

I have this exactly specific requirement, Regex split string preserving quotes

but in JavaScript.

research library "not available" author:"Bernard Shaw"

to

research

library

"not available"

author:"Bernard Shaw"

I guess js does not support positive lookbehind (googled it :) ). I am not able to do it cleanly in js. Any help will be really great as am not much aware of regex.

Thanks in advance.

Please refer the link below : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2817646/javascript-split-string-on-space-or-on-quotes-to-array — Sumedh Sidhaye, Jul 26 '12 at 06:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 26 '12 at 06:57

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Worked for me. May be you are missing something.

I tried the following code and it worked fine:

<html>
<script type="text/javascript">
    var str = 'single words "fixed string of words"';
    var split_str = str.match(/\w+|"[^"]+"/g)
    alert(split_str[0]);
    alert(split_str[1]);
    alert(split_str[2]);
</script>
</html>

answered Jul 26 '12 at 06:57

Sumedh Sidhaye

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i was just testing for research library "not available" author:"Bernard Shaw" (mentioned in question) and its desired o/p - as per the need. – user1427553 Jul 26 '12 at 07:10
did you try using the string mentioned in the question ? – Sumedh Sidhaye Jul 26 '12 at 07:11
yes, i did. but my requirement is as mentioned in the question. – user1427553 Jul 26 '12 at 07:18

Regex split string preserving quotes in javascript

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