Question

I’m struggling to extract data between quotation marks in the following text:

msgid: "something"
msgidd: "something"
msgid:"something"
msgidd:"something"
msgid:      "something"
msgidd:      "something"

With (?<=msgsid:.{1}?)(.+[^"]") I get what follows after msgid: but not always what’s inside the quotation marks. My goal is to replace what’s inside the quotation marks yet keep msgid: intact. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Using lookbehind makes it a lot more difficult as the matching allowed is much more limited. It’s easier to do:

(msgid+:\s*)"(.*?)"

And do the replacement as $1"something-replacement"