Hi I am trying to break up a string in the form:

test1 test2 "test3 test4" test5 'test6 test7' test8

into an array in the form:

tags[0] = test1
tags[1] = test2
tags[2] = test3 test4
tags[3] = test5
tags[4] = test6 test7
tags[5] = test8

I am using the regex /'([^']*)'|"([^"]*)"|([^\s| ]+)/

If i run this through expresso it gives me the correct results but in javascript using the split method:

var test = "test1 test2 \"test3 test4\" test5 'test6 test7' test8";
var tags = test.split(/'([^']*)'|"([^"]*)"|([^\s| ]+)/);

I get no results!

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Thanks
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Cracked it:

var test = "test1 test2 \"test3 test4\" test5 'test6 test7' test8";
var re = new RegExp(/'([^']*)'|"([^"]*)"|([^\s| ]+)/g);
var m = test.match(re);

if anyone interested.