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  1. text = "The (New York city) :) is big"
  2. arr = text.scan(/\(([^()]+)\)|(\S+)/).flatten - [nil]
  3. p arr
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["The", "New York city", ":)", "is", "big"]
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Ruby (ruby 2.5.5)
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