Re: regex to split on ' ', but skip spaces inside quotes

[duff]

Rather than thinking in terms of "splitting on spaces", may be it would work better if you thought in terms of "gather the things I want". For instance, would this work for you:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict; use warnings;

my $string = q(hi my name is 'john doe');
my @parts = $string =~ /'.*?'|\S+/g;
print map { "$_\n" } @parts;
__END__

?