Regular Expressions 101

Pro

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group quote(?P<quote>.+?(?<![^\\]\\))

.+?any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

Negative Lookbehind(?<![^\\]\\)

Negated Character Class[^\\]

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Global pattern flags

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

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25 tokens

"(?P<quote>.+?(?<![^\\]\\))"

New

The man over there said "Ok, it's done!" and then "Yea!"

But, really what he meant was "Yea, \"Like hell!\", y'know?\\"

The man over there said "Ok, it's done!" and then "Yea!"

But, really what he meant was "Yea, \"Like hell!\", y'know?\\"