regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

Pro

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?:^|\G(?<!^)[^'"]*")[^"]*+(?:"[^"']*"[^"]*)*+"|\G(?<!^))

1st Alternative(?:^|\G(?<!^)[^'"]*")[^"]*+(?:"[^"']*"[^"]*)*+"

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

1st Alternative^

^start of string

2nd Alternative\G(?<!^)[^'"]*"

\Gstart of current search

Negative Lookbehind(?<!^)

^start of string

Negated Character Class[^'"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]*+

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

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

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)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

2nd Alternative\G(?<!^)

\Gstart of current search

Negative Lookbehind(?<!^)

^start of string

Negated Character Class[^'"]*+

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

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group 1(')

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?:(?:^|\G(?<!^)[^'"]*")[^"]*+(?:"[^"']*"[^"]*)*+"|\G(?<!^))[^'"]*+(')

New

" This is a random sentence ' with 'a quote, the quote should match"
" There is no quote here thats the problem" Anything here should not match but now it does: ' .
" Some text " some more text " this is a quote : ' that should match"
" When there is a quote (') here, the other one does not work : " ' and that's perfect " even if you remove the first one this : " (') " will make it work because of the greedy ( I think ) but ifyou remove those between parenthesis, the other one is matching as of now, which I do not want to happen."
Another example would be this one : The following should not work, but it does "This is being quoted" not this: (') " and this is also being quoted "
"'"