patterns

[Jason <i8msft@...>]

Hi,
I'm having a little trouble figuring out how patterns and gsub work. I followed the example in the documentation to break a string up into a table of words, but I need to do two things: first, just take the first (space-delimited) word off the beginning of the string (this is for splitting it up into command and argument strings). I also need to have anything between a pair of ' be read as one word, for example the string "first 'this is one word' third" would be split up into {"first", "this is one word", "third"}. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
Thanks

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