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HTML

<div id="test"></div>

JavaScript

var test = "/create #channel 'name' 'description of the channel' #field1 #field2";
var matches = test.match(/('[^']+'|[^\s']+)/g);

for(var i=0;i<matches.length;i++) {
    if(matches[i][0] == "'") matches[i] = matches[i].substr(1,matches[i].length-2);
    document.getElementById("test").innerHTML += matches[i]+"<br>";   
}