Regular expression problems

Question

I need some help with some regular expression problems I am having. First off, double quotes ".

Anything between "" needs to be matched. Next problem I need to match anything that starts with a ' till the end of a line \n or <br />.

I've tried all sorts, but nothing seems to match it. Any ideas?

Sorry guys, just realised I need the quotes to be between " and ".

Answer 1

Simplistic:

"[^"]*"

will match anything between double quotes, though it won't work with escaped double quotes such as

"Abc\"Def"

For the single-quote to EOL, you can use

'.*$

Update: Sylverdrag's made a valid point; to match between the quotes you'd need

"([^"]*)"

and then get the first subgroup of the match. I see the question's been updated to mention that " should be used - my answer can be adapted to this easily enough.

Answer 2

Try:

Double quotes:

\&quot\;(.*?)\&quot\;

Single quote till end of line or <br/>:

\'(.*)(\<br|$)

Answer 3

anything between quotes

/"(.*)"/

from ' till end of line

/'(.*)$/

Answer 4

Try these regular expressions:

/"(.*?)"/s
/'.*?(?=\n|<br \/>)/m

Answer 5

To get a bit more funky and match only what is inside the double quotes but not the quotes themselves:

(?<=").*?(?=")