Re: find quoted string within a string (more of a regex question, though ..)

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:41:56 +0300, Robin Vickery <robinv@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:43:54 +0200, Wouter van Vliet > <wouter.van.vliet@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > For my own reasons (can explain, would take long, won't till sbody > > asks) I want to match a quoted string within a string. That is somehow > > kind of easy, I know ... if it weren't for the slashing of quotes. > > The standard perl regexp for matching double-quote delimited strings is this: > > /"([^"\\]|\\.)*"/ > > which copes nicely with escaped characters. You'll probably need to > double up the backslashes in php. > > $regex = '/"([^"\\\\]|\\\\.)*"/'; > Strawberryjuice on earth, I was expecting something very easy - but this beats it all. Changed it a little, for it to also find single-quote delimited strings: /( "([^"\\]|\\.)*" | '([^'\\]|\\.)*' )/x works like a coconut! Thanks a lot! Wouter