Regular Expressions 101

Pro

Group 1((?<!\\)\"(.*?)\"(?<!\\\"))

Negative Lookbehind(?<!\\)

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 2(.*?)

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

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negative Lookbehind(?<!\\\")

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

((?<!\\)\"(.*?)\"(?<!\\\"))

New

String x = "hello My name is \" John \" ";
char c2 = '\"';
String s = "adsf"; 
String s2  = "asdf" + "asdf";

String s = "Hello my name is \"John\" ";
String x = "asdf" char c = '\"';
String x = "asdf" + "asdf"