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Hi,

I am trying to construct a regex that extracts the string beween two quotes with the complication that that string may contain backslash-escaped quotes.

To illustrate:

my $rexeg = ???? # this is what I am after

my ($m1) = '"hubba bubba"' =~ $regex;
print "ok\n" if $m1 eq 'hubba bubba';   # should print "ok"

my ($m2) = '"hubba \"bubba\""' =~ $regex;
print "ok\n" if $m2 eq 'hubba "bubba"';   # should also print "ok"
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I hope that is understandable...

I tried to do this with negative lookbehinds, but I attempt failed with "Variable length lookbehind not implemented", so am looking for some help here.

Many thanks!

In reply to regex for strings with escaped quotes by morgon

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