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I have the following line which splits correctly but produces a duplicate for "abc" 

console.log("squadName, \"abc\"".split(/,\s*(?=([^"]*"[^"]*")*[^"]*$)/))

The expected output should be the same as that of 

console.log("squadName, \"abc\"".split(/,\s*/))

However, I'm trying to ignore commas within quotes, as explained in A regex to match a comma that isn't surrounded by quotes

deceze
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Parentheses in a JS regular expression explicitly create a capture group. If you prepend the contents with ?:, it will instead be a non-capturing group. If you see (? in general this is usually a special kind of paren-grouping value.

For your code, you'd want to do:

console.log("squadName, \"abc\"".split(/,\s*(?=(?:[^"]*"[^"]*")*[^"]*$)/))
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