Regex elegant pattern match

Question

Can someone maybe help me with this regex? I am using Javascript and classic ASP.

checkxls = checkxls.match(/'.*?', '.*?', '.*?', '.*?', '.*?', '.*?', '.*?', '.*?', '.*?', '.*?', '.*?', '.*?', '.*?', '.*?';/ig)

I need to match this pattern exactly.

I am looking for a more elegant way of doing this.

Answer 1

You can use a negative character class to avoid unnecessary backtracking:

/'[^']*'(?:, '[^']*'){13};/g

You can also drop the case-insensitive flags since there are no letters in your regular expression. This might give a small performance improvement.

Answer 2

/('', ){13}'';/ig

Answer 3

/(?:'[^']*', ){13}'[^']*';/g