parsings strings: extracting words and phrases [JavaScript]

input : 'foo bar "lorem ipsum" baz'
output: ['foo', 'bar', 'lorem ipsum', 'baz']

var str = 'foo bar "lorem ipsum" baz';
var results = str.match(/("[^"]+"|[^"s]+)/g);

var input = 'foo bar "lorem ipsum" baz';

output = input.match(/("[^"]+"|[^"s]+)/g);
output = input.match(/"[^"]*"|w+/g);
output = input.match(/("[^"]*")|([^s"]+)/g)
output = /(".+?"|w+)/g.exec(input);
output = /"(.+?)"|(w+)/g.exec(input);

var input = 'foo bar "lorem ipsum" "dolor sit amet" baz';
var terms = input.split(" ");

var items = [];
var buffer = [];
for(var i = 0; i < terms.length; i++) {
    if(terms[i].indexOf('"') != -1) { // outer phrase fragment -- N.B.: assumes quote is either first or last character
    	if(buffer.length === 0) { // beginning of phrase
    		//console.log("start:", terms[i]);
    		buffer.push(terms[i].substr(1));
    	} else { // end of phrase
    		//console.log("end:", terms[i]);
    		buffer.push(terms[i].substr(0, terms[i].length - 1));
    		items.push(buffer.join(" "));
    		buffer = [];
    	}
    } else if(buffer.length != 0) { // inner phrase fragment
    	//console.log("cont'd:", terms[i]);
    	buffer.push(terms[i]);
    } else { // individual term
    	//console.log("standalone:", terms[i]);
    	items.push(terms[i]);
    }
    //console.log(items, "n", buffer);
}
items = items.concat(buffer);

//console.log(items);

'foo bar "lorem ipsum" baz'.match(/"[^"]*"|w+/g);

output = /(".+?"|w+)/g.exec(input)

output = /"(.+?)"|(w+)/g.exec(input)

'foo bar "lorem ipsum" baz'.match(/("[^"]*")|([^s"]+)/g)
output:   ['foo', 'bar', '"lorem ipsum"', 'baz']

var input = 'foo bar "lorem ipsum" baz';
var R =  /(w|s)*w(?=")|w+/g;
var output = input.match(R);

output is ["foo", "bar", "lorem ipsum", "baz"]

var input2 = 'foo bar lorem ipsum" baz'; var output2 = input2.match(R);
var input3 = 'foo bar "lorem ipsum baz'; var output3 = input3.match(R);

output2 is ["foo bar lorem ipsum", "baz"]
output3 is ["foo", "bar", "lorem", "ipsum", "baz"]

var input4 = 'foo b"ar  bar" "bar "lorem ipsum" baz';
var output4 = input4.match(R);

output4 is  ["foo b", "ar bar", "bar", "lorem ipsum", "baz"]