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ruby code for modifying outer quotes on strings?

This is my string:

msgid """We couldn't set up that account, sorry.  Please try again, or contact an ""admin (link is above)."

I want to remove all the double quotes except the first and last one.
How may I do that?

Answer 1

This is assuming your strings will always be of the “msgid…” format shown above and your inteded output was ‘msgid “text here”‘:

>> str.gsub(/(msgid )"{1,}(.*) "{1,}(.*)"/, '\1"\2 \3"')
=> "msgid "We couldn't set up that account, sorry.  Please try again or contact an admin (link is above).""
>> puts str.gsub(/(msgid )"{1,}(.*) "{1,}(.*)"/, '\1"\2 \3"')
msgid "We couldn't set up that account, sorry.  Please try again or contact an admin (link is above)."