Question

I have a tag that is like

tag="text textwithdot. text text"

followed by a further tag that would resemble

tag="text text text"

I wanted to use the following regular expression

tag="\w+" 

but that only finds one word, how do I find the whole string within the quotes, what wildcard does that?

Answer 1

This should work for you:

tag="([^"]*)"

That basically means tag=" followed by zero or more characters that are not a double quote, followed by a double quote.

BTW: I’m assuming that there is no such thing as a tag that contains the double quote character. If there is such a thing, it would need some escaping rule applied to it and the regular expression would be more complicated.