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Asked: May 11, 20262026-05-11T02:17:56+00:00 2026-05-11T02:17:56+00:00

I wonder if anyone can provide me with the regular expressions needed to parse

I wonder if anyone can provide me with the regular expressions needed to parse a string like:

‘foo bar ‘multiple word tag”

into an array of tags like:

[‘foo’,’bar’,’multiple word tag’]

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In Ruby

scan(/\'([\w ]+)\'|(\w+)/).flatten.compact

E.g.

'foo bar \'multiple words\' party_like_1999'.scan(/\'([\w ]+)\'|(\w+)/).flatten.compact => ['foo', 'bar', 'multiple words', 'party_like_1999']

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