parsings strings: extracting words and phrases [JavaScript]

by 
var str="foo bar "lorem ipsum" baz";  
var results = str.match(/("[^"]+"|[^"\s]+)/g);

… returns the array you’re looking for.
Note, however:

  • Bounding quotes are included, so can be removed with replace(/^"([^"]+)"$/,"$1") on the results.
  • Spaces between the quotes will stay intact. So, if there are three spaces between lorem and ipsum, they’ll be in the result. You can fix this by running replace(/\s+/," ") on the results.
  • If there’s no closing " after ipsum (i.e. an incorrectly-quoted phrase) you’ll end up with: ['foo', 'bar', 'lorem', 'ipsum', 'baz']

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