java - Split string by comma but ignore commas in brackets or in quotes

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I have a string like hello, "darkness, my", (old, friend) and I want this splitted result:
hello
"darkness, my"
(old, friend)

I found a way to ignore the commas in "-marks ( ,?=([^\"]*\"[^\"]*\")*[^\"]*$ ) and another way to ignore the commas in brackets ( ,(?=[^\\)]*(?:\\(|$)) ).
When I use the first, I get:
hello
"darkness, my"
friend)
And when I use the second, I get:
hello
"darkness
(old, friend)

But how do I combine these two solutions?

You can always use both tests...


    ,(?=...)(?=...)

. Or to make your life simpler don't use split which describes delimiters, use


    Matcher#find

and describe tokens which you are interested in


    any words


    "text between quotes"


    (text between parenthesis)

. Or maybe even better don't use regex at all. Simply iterate over characters and pay attention to comma which is outside of parenthesis or quotes like stackoverflow.com/questions/12756651/… – Pshemo Nov 23, 2016 at 17:49 Thanks both of you. It is for a very small thing so I just used both tests as @Pshemo suggested and it worked – Selphiron Nov 23, 2016 at 17:57 @payamsbr I think so. It did not raise any exceptions and the data looks ok. I need to double check some of the data to be sure. Do you think that it should not work because of a mistake? – Selphiron Nov 23, 2016 at 18:08

Probably easier to match the parts, rather than splitting them.

\s*("[^"]*"|$[^)]*$|[^,]+)

This will capture each piece of data as group 1.

thanks that worked. The other solution was to use both tests


    ,(?=...)(?=...)

as @Pshemo suggested but this is approach also works. Thanks – Selphiron Nov 23, 2016 at 22:28

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