Question

examples:

"""Romeo and Juliet"""
'another string that is quoted with '' single quotes'

the problem is that the string can have characters used for db escaping even in it’s beginning and end, so regex should look if given char is used in sequence of odd length that is 1,3,5… at the end of matched string

Answer 1

Try this regex: '(?:[^']|'')*' for single quotes. The same for double quotes, i.e. full regex:

'(?:[^']|'')*'|"(?:[^"]|"")*"

In string hello 'my ''beautiful''' 'world'! """Romeo and Juliet""" it will find:

1. 'my ''beautiful'''
2. 'world'
3. """Romeo and Juliet"""