From: walter@...
Date: 2004-03-26T21:29:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie] regexp - match quotation mark


> Hi, I'm trying to write a regular expression to match a quotation mark
> inside a string. Actually, what I want is to extract the text between
> two quotation marks, like this:
> 
> This should be "simple", but I can't do it.
> 
> I want to extract the word simple with a regular expression.

if /"([^"]*)/ =~ 'This should be "simple", but I can\'t do it.'
	puts $1
end

I would recommend Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeff Friedl, from 
Oreily.


Hope that helps,

Walt




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