Question

I’m new to regular expressions so forgive me if this is really basic. I have a string like: something "some item" something "another item"and an expression:".*". When I run it I get "some item" something "another item" but really all I want it "another item". Is it possible to modify the expression to do that? It’s going to be used via RegExKit.

Thanks

Answer 1

Based on the single example you’ve provided, this will work:

("[^"]*")$

It matches everything between a pair of double quotes, including the quotes, at the end of the input.

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Im looking for the last quoted substring no matter how many there are.

In that case, the above does not necessarily do what you want. Try this:

.*("[^"]*")

See @mhyfrtiz’ answer for an explanation of the .* part.