Regular Expressions 101

Pro

1st Alternative(?:"[^"\n]*(?:""[^"\n]*)*"|'[^'\n]*(?:''[^'\n]*)*')(?<!;["'])(*SKIP)(*F)

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

1st Alternative"[^"\n]*(?:""[^"\n]*)*"

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^"\n]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

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

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

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

""the literal text ""

Negated Character Class[^"\n]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

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

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

2nd Alternative'[^'\n]*(?:''[^'\n]*)*'

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^'\n]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

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

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

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

''the literal text ''

Negated Character Class[^'\n]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

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

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Negative Lookbehind(?<!;["'])

;the literal ; (59₁₀ / 73₈ / 3B₁₆)

Character Class["']

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

(*SKIP)acts like (*PRUNE), but the next unanchored match attempt starts where (*SKIP) was reached instead of at the next subject character

(*F)forces the current match attempt to fail at this position

2nd Alternative;

;the literal ; (59₁₀ / 73₈ / 3B₁₆)

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

(?:"[^"\n]*(?:""[^"\n]*)*"|'[^'\n]*(?:''[^'\n]*)*')(?<!;["'])(*SKIP)(*F)|;

New

"bla ; bla"; bla
"bla "";"" bla"; bla
"bla ";" bla"; bla
"bla ;" bla"; bla
";bla ;" bla"; bla
";bla ;"" bla"; bla