split a string only on spaces that are outside curly braces

Question

I am new to regex and I need some help. I read some topics similar to this issue, but I could not figure out how to resolve it.

I need to split a string on every bla

Answer 1

\{[^}]+\}|\S+

This matches either a run of any characters enclosed by curly braces, or a run of non-space characters. Grabbing all of the matches for it out of your string should provide you with what you want.

Answer 2

Here is exactly what you want...

string Source = "{ TEST test } test { test test} {test test } { 123 } test test";
List<string> Result = new List<string>();
StringBuilder Temp = new StringBuilder();
bool inBracket = false;
foreach (char c in Source)
{
    switch (c)
    {
        case (char)32:       //Space
            if (!inBracket)
            {
                Result.Add(Temp.ToString());
                Temp = new StringBuilder();
            }
            break;
        case (char)123:     //{
            inBracket = true;
            break;
        case (char)125:      //}
            inBracket = false;
            break;
    }
    Temp.Append(c);
}
if (Temp.Length > 0) Result.Add(Temp.ToString());

Answer 3

I solved my problem using:

StringCollection information = new StringCollection();  
foreach (Match match in Regex.Matches(string, @"\{[^}]+\}|\S+"))  
{  
   information.Add(match.Value);  
}

Thanks for your help guys !!!