regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

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Non-Capturing Group(?:"[^"]*"[^"]*)*?

*?repeats the group contents below any number of times:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

\"{1}the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆) , repeated exactly 1 time

Group 1([^"]*?([']{1,})[^"]*?)

Negated Character Class[^"]*?

*?matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 2([']{1,})

Character Class[']{1,}

{1,}matches at least one character from the set below:

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]*?

*?matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?:"[^"]*"[^"]*)*?\"{1}([^"]*?([']{1,})[^"]*?)\"

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If you place a quote there: () it should not be detected, but if "you place a quote there: (()) " it should be detected , apparently if there is no quote between double-quotes elsewhere and there are some outside double-quotes ex: () those outside are detected and we do not want that.

My problem is that I want to match single quotes using a regex, but I only want to do so if they are being quotes : between double-quotes, like so : "(())" add/remove single quotes between parenthesis to test...

(()) = should match
() = should not match