Find strings in strings

Question

I have the following string:

here "is 'a' \"string\" that" does contain a 'lot of "weird"' stuff "i" to 'find'

I want to extract is 'a' \"string\" that, lot of "weird", i and find.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

This negative lookbehind based regex should work for you:

/(["']).*?(?<!\\)\1/g

Live Demo: http://www.rubular.com/r/X3etmgKFNH

Regex without support of lookbehind e.g. Javascript

/(['"])(?:\1|.*?[^\\]\1)/g

Live Demo: http://www.rubular.com/r/SQyEYIPS4l