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user1204721
user1204721

Reputation: 1

Ruby Quotation Regex

I wanted to ask this as I looked and it's specific and couldn't find other threads on it.

I want to make a regex that will Capture everything that would lie between two quotations and the quotations as well surrounding.

like: "insert whatever string here (which can include " "'s)"

basically I want a regex line that would take the quotations AND everything in between them (can be anything).

So a line with quotations and anything that lies inside of it.

I can't seem to figure this out.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 185

Answers (2)

brymck
brymck

Reputation: 7663

From the regex side of things, you could try this:

str = %q{uncaptured " captured " " /captured " /uncaptured}
str[/".*"/]
#=> "" captured " " /captured ""

For a non-regex solution, you just find the first and last index and collect the substring in between:

str[str.index('"')..str.rindex('"')]

Upvotes: 1

seph
seph

Reputation: 6076

I think you are just having a problem with the single and double quotes. Use this:

%q{like: "insert whatever string here (which can include " "'s)"}[/".*"/]

Upvotes: 1

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