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Consider the following text -
[Event "F/S Return Match"]
I want to extract -
F/S Return Match
Right now I'm using -
\"(.*)"
Which yeilds -
"F/S Return Match"
Then I use -
[^"]*
To get -
F/S Return Match
Could I combine the two into one?
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To match any character except a list of excluded characters, put the excluded charaters between [^ and ] . The caret ^ must immediately follow the [ or else it stands for just itself. The character '. ' (period) is a metacharacter (it sometimes has a special meaning).
The metacharacter \b is an anchor like the caret and the dollar sign. It matches at a position that is called a “word boundary”. This match is zero-length. There are three different positions that qualify as word boundaries: Before the first character in the string, if the first character is a word character.
Example: The regex "aa\n" tries to match two consecutive "a"s at the end of a line, inclusive the newline character itself. Example: "a\+" matches "a+" and not a series of one or "a"s. ^ the caret is the anchor for the start of the string, or the negation symbol. Example: "^a" matches "a" at the start of the string.
Look-around could be an option:
(?<=")[^"]*(?=")
(?<=") checks that the previous character is a ".(?=") checks that the next character is a ".
Test.
An alternative is just to use grouping:
"([^"]*)"
How to extract the group is dependent on the language used.
Test. (note the "Matching groups" area)
I didn't simply use "(.*)" because the string abc "def" "ghi" will match "def" "ghi", though you may have wanted to match "def" and "ghi" separately. An alternative to [^"] is non-greedy matching - "(.*?)", which will match as little of the string as possible.
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