Split a quoted string around a delimiter.

splitQuote.ms

import "qa"

// Split a quoted string on a delimiter.
string.splitQuote = function(delim)
    a = self.split("""")
    b = []
    for n in a.indexes
        if n % 2 == 0 then
            b += a[n].trim.split(delim)
        else
            b.push """" + a[n] + """"
        end if
    end for
    return b
end function

runUnitTests = function
    delim = " "
    
    text = """But what if I spoke before thinking?"" he thought to himself."
    qa.assertEqual text.splitQuote(delim), [
        """But what if I spoke before thinking?""",
        "he",
        "thought",
        "to",
        "himself.",
    ]
    
    text = "He said, ""But what did you think?"", but no one was listening."
    qa.assertEqual text.splitQuote(delim), [
        "He",
        "said,",
        """But what did you think?""",
        ",",
        "but",
        "no",
        "one",
        "was",
        "listening.",
    ]
end function

runUnitTests