Regex for matching a quoted string with possible escape characters

[Adam Atlas]

I seek a regular expression, pcre or ereg (it doesn't matter), which,
given a quoted string (e.g. "foo" => foo) will return the contained
text, but that will accommodate escaped quote characters within the
string (e.g. "foo\"bar" => foo"bar).

Thanks.
] Adam

[John Dunlop]

Re: Regex for matching a quoted string with possible escape characters

Adam Atlas wrote:
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> I seek a regular expression, pcre or ereg (it doesn't matter), which,
> given a quoted string (e.g. "foo" => foo) will return the contained
> text, but that will accommodate escaped quote characters within the
> string (e.g. "foo\"bar" => foo"bar).[/color]

`"(.*?)(?<!\\\) "`

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Jock