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Regex pattern for extraction of double-quoted and non-quoted strings Javascript

Umut885

im desperately trying to extract double quoted and non-quoted words from following string (Please note the single quotes around):

'"Cloud Technology" Foundation "Board"'

Desired groups are:

  1. “Cloud Technology”
  2. Foundation
  3. “Board”

I came up with this pattern (?:"(.*?)")|(?:s(S*?)s) have a look in regex101.com

But the pattern doesnt works if the string would be for example '"Cloud Technology" Foundation'

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Answer

You can use

console.log(`'"Cloud Technology" Foundation "Board"'`.match(/"[^"]+"|[^s']+/g))

See the regex demo. Details:

  • "[^"]+" – ", zero or more chars other than " and then a " char
  • | – or
  • [^s']+ – one or more chars other than whitespace and ' chars.