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Philipp Naumann
Philipp Naumann

Reputation: 87

Regular expression matching non-empty quoted substrings

I'm looking for a regular expression that matches "batz", but not "" in this text: bla "" and "batz" foo

/"([^"]*)"/g matches both, /"([^"]+)"/g matches " and ".

Is this even possible with regular expressions?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 173

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785098

You may use this regex with a captured group:

(?:""|[^"])*("[^"]+")

RegEx Demo

RegEx Details:

  • (?:: Start a non-capture group
    • "": Match ""
    • |: OR
    • [^"]: Match any character that is not "
  • )*: Close non-capture group. * lets this group match 0 or more occurrences
  • ("[^"]+"): Match a non-empty double quoted string and capture in group #1

Upvotes: 2

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