Question

I would like to write a javascript regular expression that will match match multi-line strings contained in quotes that possibly also contain quotes. The final quote will be terminated with a comma.

For example:

"some text between the quotes including " characters",

This sting starts with a ", ends with ", and contains " characters.

How do I get this to work?

I guess the real question is How do i match a multi-line string that starts with " and ends with ",??

Answer 1

Match many non-", or " not followed by ,:

/"((?:[^"]|"(?!,))*)",/

or use lazy quantifier:

/"([\0-\uffff]*?)",/