Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Group 1(\"[^"]*.*?)

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

Group 2(.*?\")

.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

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

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25 tokens

(\"[^"]*.*?)-(.*?\")

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This is a test string with "quotation-marks" within it.
The "problem" I am having, per-se, is "knowing" which "quotation-marks"
go with which words.