regex101: QBAR Atom Regex

Pro

1st Alternative(?>[^\"\(\s\)]+(?>(?>\"[^\"]*\")[^\"\(\s\)]*)*)

Atomic Group(?>[^\"\(\s\)]+(?>(?>\"[^\"]*\")[^\"\(\s\)]*)*)

Negated Character Class[^\"\(\s\)]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

\sany whitespace character

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

Atomic Group(?>(?>\"[^\"]*\")[^\"\(\s\)]*)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Atomic Group(?>\"[^\"]*\")

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\"\(\s\)]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

\sany whitespace character

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

2nd Alternative(?>[^\"\(\s\)]*(?>(?>\"[^\"]*\")[^\"\(\s\)]*)+)

Atomic Group(?>[^\"\(\s\)]*(?>(?>\"[^\"]*\")[^\"\(\s\)]*)+)

Negated Character Class[^\"\(\s\)]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

\sany whitespace character

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

Atomic Group(?>(?>\"[^\"]*\")[^\"\(\s\)]*)+

+repeats the group contents below at least once:

Atomic Group(?>\"[^\"]*\")

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\"\(\s\)]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

\sany whitespace character

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?>[^\"\(\s\)]+(?>(?>\"[^\"]*\")[^\"\(\s\)]*)*)|(?>[^\"\(\s\)]*(?>(?>\"[^\"]*\")[^\"\(\s\)]*)+)

New

123

"a b c"

f"Hello, {world}!"

"multi-line
strings"

text-before-the-quote"text in the quote"text-after-the-quote

[]{}<>-are-also"atoms since we only care about ()"<-notice_we_had_to_escape"("and")"

emoji.too:🗿:😂