const splitRegex = /\\?.|^$/g;

/**
 * adapted from {@link https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4031900/split-a-string-by-whitespace-keeping-quoted-segments-allowing-escaped-quotes this}
 * @param str string to split
 * @returns
 */
export const splitWhitespace = (str: string, keepQuotes = true): null | string[] => {
  const match = str.match(splitRegex);
  if (!match || match[0] == '') {
    return null;
  }
  const array = match
    .reduce(
      (accumulator, current) => {
        if (current === '"') {
          accumulator.inQuotes ^= 1;
          if (keepQuotes) {
            accumulator.array[accumulator.array.length - 1] += current.replace(/\\(.)/, '$1');
          }
        } else if (!accumulator.inQuotes && current === ' ') {
          accumulator.array.push('');
        } else {
          accumulator.array[accumulator.array.length - 1] += current.replace(/\\(.)/, '$1');
        }
        return accumulator;
      },
      { array: [''], inQuotes: 0 },
    )
    .array.filter((value) => value != '');

  if (!array.length) {
    return null;
  }

  return array;
};