splitargs

Splits strings into tokens by given separator except treating quoted part as a single token.

Installation

npm install splitargs

Usage

var splitargs = require('splitargs');

var i1 = "I said 'I am sorry.', and he said \"it doesn't matter.\"";
var o1 = splitargs(i1);
console.log(o1);
/*
[ 'I',
  'said',
  'I am sorry.,',
  'and',
  'he',
  'said',
  'it doesn\'t matter.' ]
*/

var i2 = "I said \"I am sorry.\", and he said \"it doesn't matter.\"";
var o2 = splitargs(i2);
console.log(o2);
/*
[ 'I',
  'said',
  'I am sorry.,',
  'and',
  'he',
  'said',
  'it doesn\'t matter.' ]
*/

var i3 = 'I said "I am sorry.", and he said "it doesn\'t matter."';
var o3 = splitargs(i3);
console.log(o3);
/*
[ 'I',
  'said',
  'I am sorry.,',
  'and',
  'he',
  'said',
  'it doesn\'t matter.' ]
*/

var i4 = 'I said \'I am sorry.\', and he said "it doesn\'t matter."';
var o4 = splitargs(i4);
console.log(o4);
/*
[ 'I',
  'said',
  'I am sorry.,',
  'and',
  'he',
  'said',
  'it doesn\'t matter.' ]
*/