I have this regular expression: [^\\s\"']+|\"([^\"]*)\"|'([^']*)' which works for splitting a string by white spaces, and anything within a quotation is not delimited. However, I notice that if I put in a string that starts with ">" no matches are found. How would I correct this?

For example, if I enter ">> test 2". I want it to match to [>>, test, 2]

Note: using java to compile the regex, here is some code

Pattern pattern =  Pattern.compile("[^\\s\"']+|\"([^\"]*)\"|'([^']*)'");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(SomeString);
while (matcher.find()){
    String temp = matcher.group();
    //... Do something ...
}

Thanks.