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Google-like search query pattern matching

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Regular Expression
ECMAScript (JavaScript)

/
(-"[^"]+"|"[^"]+"|-\w+|\w+)\s*
/
g

Description

To identify quoted strings, single terms as well as subtracting those types.

Based on: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1883188/google-like-search-query-tokenization-string-splitting

Submitted by Michael La Voie - 9 years ago