Question

I have this string:

*”TEST_START” List of 4 $ test : Named num 0.983 ..- attr(, “names”)= chr “W” $ p.value : num 0.975 $ method : chr “This is the test name” $ data.name: chr “x” – attr(, “class”)= chr “htest” [1]*

I’m trying to write a regex that could isolate just the following substring withing double quotes: This is the test name

At the moment I made this regex:

method\s:\schr\s"([^"]*)"

It isolates a subset of the string. However I’d need to match just the aforementioned substring (This is the test name).

Answer 1

Try this,

(?<=method\s:\schr\s").*?(?=")

See Lookahead and Lookbehind Zero-Width Assertions.

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