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Regex for matching a quoted string with possible escape characters

I seek a regular expression, pcre or ereg (it doesn't matter), which,
given a quoted string (e.g. "foo" => foo) will return the contained
text, but that will accommodate escaped quote characters within the
string (e.g. "foo\"bar" => foo"bar).

Thanks.
] Adam

Sep 18 '05 #1
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Adam Atlas wrote:
I seek a regular expression, pcre or ereg (it doesn't matter), which,
given a quoted string (e.g. "foo" => foo) will return the contained
text, but that will accommodate escaped quote characters within the
string (e.g. "foo\"bar" => foo"bar).


`"(.*?)(?<!\\\) "`

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Sep 18 '05 #2

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