Parsing a search string

[Freddie]

Happy new year! Since I have run out of alcohol, I'll ask a question that I 
haven't really worked out an answer for yet. Is there an elegant way to turn 
something like:

> moo cow "farmer john" -zug
into:
['moo', 'cow', 'farmer john'], ['zug']
I'm trying to parse a search string so I can use it for SQL WHERE constraints, 
preferably without horrifying regular expressions. Uhh yeah.

From 2005,
  Freddie
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