Function SplitButRespectQuotes

internal/util/util.go:254–278

(s string)

}

func SplitButRespectQuotes(s string) []string {

	// This regex matches either a quoted string (with either single or double quotes) or a non-space sequence.
	// For example, for the input: `hello "my name" is 'Sammy'`
	// It matches: [`hello", ""my name"", "is", "'Sammy'`]
	re := regexp.MustCompile(`("[^"]*")|('[^']*')|\S+`)
	matches := re.FindAllString(s, -1)
	finalMatches := make([]string, 0, 1)

	// Remove quotes around the matches, if they exist
	for _, match := range matches {

		match = strings.TrimSpace(match)

		if strings.HasPrefix(match, `"`) && strings.HasSuffix(match, `"`) ||
			strings.HasPrefix(match, `'`) && strings.HasSuffix(match, `'`) {
			str := strings.TrimSpace(match[1 : len(match)-1])
			finalMatches = append(finalMatches, str)
		} else {
			finalMatches = append(finalMatches, match)
		}
	}

	return finalMatches
}

// accepts an input and splits it along a # if any.
// By default returns the full string and 1 as the number.