IRC Message Splitting Regex

irc.regex

Page explaining this regex: http://danieloaks.net/irc-regex/

Raw regex:

^(?:@([^\r\n ]*) +|())(?::([^\r\n ]+) +|())([^\r\n ]+)(?: +([^:\r\n ]+[^\r\n ]*(?: +[^:\r\n ]+[^\r\n ]*)*)|())?(?: +:([^\r\n]*)| +())?[\r\n]*$


Sample IRC messages:

foo bar baz asdf
:coolguy foo bar baz asdf
foo bar baz :asdf quux
foo bar baz :
foo bar baz ::asdf
:coolguy foo bar baz :asdf quux
:coolguy foo bar baz :  asdf quux 
:coolguy PRIVMSG bar :lol :) 
:coolguy foo bar baz :
:coolguy foo bar baz :  
@a=b;c=32;k;rt=ql7 foo
@a=b\\\\and\\nk;c=72\\s45;d=gh\\:764 foo
@c;h=;a=b :quux ab   test cd
:src JOIN #chan
:src JOIN :#chan
:src AWAY
:src AWAY 
:cool	guy foo bar baz
:gravel.mozilla.org 432  #momo :Erroneous Nickname: Illegal characters
:gravel.mozilla.org MODE #tckk +n 
:services.esper.net MODE #foo-bar +o foobar