Parse command line-like line

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This is perhaps a duplicate question, but I didn't find anything that would be helpful for me.

Look, I have a string (actually that's command string) that is looking like command arg1 "arg2 with whitespaces but enclosed with quotes".

So I need to parse it, construct an array or arguments - something like {"arg1", "arg2 with whitespaces but enclosed with quotes"}

There's no way to do so with a simple split - quote-enclosed argument may be with spaces so split will consider them "arguments" too.

Any libs, or something else helpful relate to this?

see this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7804335/split-string-on-spaces-in-java-except-if-between-quotes-i-e-treat-hello-wor?noredirect=1&lq=1 — dumbPotato21, Oct 20 '17 at 15:54
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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 20 '17 at 15:59

If you have only two args you can use :

    String myString = "command arg1 \"arg2 with whitespaces but enclosed with quotes\"";
    String [] splited = myString.split(" ",3);
    System.out.println(Arrays.toString(splited));

if you have more see the Q&A in the comments.

Parse command line-like line

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