CODEWITHSUNDEEP
javascriptregex
jcubic
jcubic

Reputation: 66590

Splitting command line into arguments

I have as string that I'm splitting into arguments using this regex:

/('[^']*'|"(\\"|[^"])*"|(?:\/(\\\/|[^\/])+\/[gimy]*)(:? |$)|(\\ |[^ ])+|[\w-]+)/gi;

it work fine for string like this:

'test "foo bar" baz /^asd [x]/ str\\ str 10 1e10';

exept regular expressions have space at the end because of (:? |$) I've fixed that by removing space after split, but is there a way to do this with just regex modification?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 243

Answers (2)

p.s.w.g
p.s.w.g

Reputation: 149040

You could change it to a lookahead ((?=…)):

/('[^']*'|"(\\"|[^"])*"|(?:\/(\\\/|[^\/])+\/[gimy]*)(?= |$)|(\\ |[^ ])+|[\w-]+)/gi;

I'd also consider changing the spaces to \s (and [^ ] to \S) in order to handle other whitespace characters like tabs and line breaks.

Upvotes: 1

MDEV
MDEV

Reputation: 10838

Change (:? |$) to (?=:? |$) (?= is a positive lookahead, so it will enforce matching, but not be returned)

Upvotes: 1

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