Split a string that has white spaces, unless they are enclosed within "quotes"?
c#, split
Solution
string input = "one \"two two\" three \"four four\" five six";
var parts = Regex.Matches(input, @"[\""].+?[\""]|[^ ]+")
.Cast<Match>()
.Select(m => m.Value)
.ToList();
Problem
To make things simple: ``` string streamR = sr.ReadLine(); // sr.Readline results in: // one "two two" ``` I want to be able to save them as two different strings, remove all spaces EXCEPT for the spaces found between quotation marks. Therefore, what I need is: ``` string 1 = one string 2 = two two ``` So far what I have found that works is the following code, but it removes the spaces within the quotes. ``` //streamR.ReadLine only has two strings string[] splitter = streamR.Split(' '); str1 = splitter[0]; // Only set str2 if the length is >1 str2 = splitter.Length > 1 ? splitter[1] : string.Empty; ``` The output of this becomes ``` one two ``` I have looked into Regular Expression to split on spaces unless in quotes however I can't seem to get regex to work/understand the code, especially how to split them so they are two different strings. All the codes there give me a compiling error (I am using `System.Text.RegularExpressions`)