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I’m trying to write a regular expression which will match a string. For simplicity, I’m only concerned with double quote (“) strings for the moment.
So far I have this: "\"[^\"]*\""
This works for most strings but fails when there is an escaped double quote such as this:
"a string \" with an escaped quote"
In this case, it only matches up to the escaped quote.
I’ve tried several things to allow an escaped quote but so far I’ve been unsuccessful, can anyone give me a hand?
I’ve managed to solve it myself: