Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Non-Capturing Group(?:[^"'\n]*(?:"(?:[^"\n]|"")*"))*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negated Character Class[^"'\n]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

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

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

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

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

1st Alternative[^"\n]

Negated Character Class[^"\n]

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

2nd Alternative""

""the literal text ""

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Group 1(.*)

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

$end of line

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

Regular Expression

^(?:[^"'\n]*(?:"(?:[^"\n]|"")*"))*[^"]*'(.*)$

New

Working - This is a test 'This should be captured
Working - "this is a test" 'This should be captured
Not Working - "this is a test" 'This should be "captured"
Not Working - This is a test 'This should be "captured"
Working - "this is a test 'this should not capture'" 'this should capture
Working - "this isn't a test" 'this should capture
And "this"? Does it "work" or doesn't it? ' Comment
"Having ""quoted"" quotes couldn't work, could they"? "Yeah, they do!" ' Great