Regex for splitting a string using space when not surrounded by single or double quotes

Question

I\'m new to regular expressions and would appreciate your help. I\'m trying to put together an expression that will split the example string using all spaces that are not s

Answer 1

If you are using c#, you can use

string input= "This is a string that \"will be\" highlighted when your 'regular expression' matches ";

List list1 = 
                Regex.Matches(input, @"(?\w+)|\""(?[\w\s]*)""|'(?[\w\s]*)'|<(?[\w\s]*)>").Cast().Select(m => m.Groups["match"].Value).ToList();

foreach(var v in list1)
   Console.WriteLine(v);

I have specifically added "|<(?[\w\s]*)>" to highlight that you can specify any char to group phrases. (In this case I am using < > to group.

Output is :

This
is
a
string
that
will be
highlighted
when
your
regular expression 
matches
something random