Posted by John Dunlop on 09/18/05 12:02

Adam Atlas wrote:

> I seek a regular expression, pcre or ereg (it doesn't matter), which,
> given a quoted string (e.g. "foo" => foo) will return the contained
> text, but that will accommodate escaped quote characters within the
> string (e.g. "foo\"bar" => foo"bar).

`"(.*?)(?<!\\\)"`

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Jock

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