Question

I’m new to Perl and regular expressions and I am having a hard time extracting a string enclosed by double quotes. Like for example,

"Stackoverflow is

awesome"

Before I extract the strings, I want to check if it is the end of the line of the whole text was in the variable:

if($wholeText =~ /\"$/)   #check the last character if " which is the end of the string
{
   $wholeText =~ s/\"(.*)\"/$1/;   #extract the string, removed the quotes
}

My code didn’t work; it is not getting inside of the if condition.

Answer 1

You need to do:

if($wholeText =~ /"$/)
{
    $wholeText =~ s/"(.*?)"/$1/s;
}

. doesn’t match newlines unless you apply the /s modifier.

There’s no need to escape the quotes like you’re doing.