On 25-Sep-2015 22:37, skilion wrote:
On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 07:40:18 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
Removing anonymous groups and using raw-literal:
regex(`^\s*(\w+)\s*=\s*"(.*)"\s*$`)
Looks simpler I guess.
Good advice, thanks.
Though if key="value" is expected I'd suggest to use lazy .* -
`"(.*?)"` to stop on first " if any.
After playing a bit with it, I realized that it doesn't work in this
case (a="a"a" still match). The right solution would be "(.[^"])"
I hope that was ([^"]*)
Yeah, .*? won't work because of '$' at the end of the pattern.
Anyway to allow classical escapes in string literal I'd go for:
`"(?:[^"]+|\")*"`
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Dmitry Olshansky
