Split a string by commas but ignore commas within double-quotes using Javascript

Question

I'm looking for [a, b, c, "d, e, f", g, h]to turn into an array of 6 elements: a, b, c, "d,e,f", g, h. I'm trying to do this through Javascript. This is what I have so far:

str = str.split(/,+|"[^"]+"/g);  

But right now it's splitting out everything that's in the double-quotes, which is incorrect.

Edit: Okay sorry I worded this question really poorly. I'm being given a string not an array.

var str = 'a, b, c, "d, e, f", g, h'; 

And I want to turn that into an array using something like the "split" function.

Answer 1

Here's what I would do.

var str = 'a, b, c, "d, e, f", g, h'; var arr = str.match(/(".*?"|[^",\s]+)(?=\s*,|\s*$)/g); 

/* will match:

    (         ".*?"       double quotes + anything but double quotes + double quotes         |           OR         [^",\s]+    1 or more characters excl. double quotes, comma or spaces of any kind     )     (?=             FOLLOWED BY         \s*,        0 or more empty spaces and a comma         |           OR         \s*$        0 or more empty spaces and nothing else (end of string)     )      */ arr = arr || []; // this will prevent JS from throwing an error in // the below loop when there are no matches for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) console.log('arr['+i+'] =',arr[i]); 

Answer 2

regex: /,(?=(?:(?:[^"]*"){2})*[^"]*$)/

const input_line = '"2C95699FFC68","201 S BOULEVARDRICHMOND, VA 23220","8299600062754882","2018-09-23"'  let my_split = input_line.split(/,(?=(?:(?:[^"]*"){2})*[^"]*$)/)[4]  Output:  my_split[0]: "2C95699FFC68",  my_split[1]: "201 S BOULEVARDRICHMOND, VA 23220",  my_split[2]: "8299600062754882",  my_split[3]: "2018-09-23" 

Reference following link for an explanation: regexr.com/44u6o