How can I split a string but keep text within quotes together without Regex or Linq

Question

I want to split a string and keep text within quotes so I can properly parse arguments at a command line. However, Regex and Linq are not supported on COSMOS.

I need some way to split a string like the following:

This is "a very" important string "doing string things"

Into an array with the following contents:

{"This", "is", "a very", "important", "string", "doing string things"}

The closest I could find that could fix my problem is this answer. However, I can't figure out how to convert this to an array because I don't know how to use IEnumerals.

Answer 1

I firstly split " then trim and finally with mode split which is not in " " then add them to list string

public string[] toArr(string word){
    List<string> result=new List<string>();
    var split1=word.Split('"');
    for(int i=0 ; i<split1.Length ;i++){
        split1[i]=split1[i].Trim();
    }
    for(int i=0;i<split1.Length;i++){
        if(i%2==0){
            var split2=split1[i].Split(' ');
            foreach(var el in split2){
                result.Add(el);
            }
        }
        else{
            result.Add(split1[i]);
        }

    }
    string[] arr=new string[result.Count];
    for(int i=0;i<result.Count;i++){
        arr[i]=result[i];
    }
    return arr;

}