Re: [Grammatica-users] Question about regular expressions involving quoted strings

[Per Cederberg]

Try experimenting on http://regexpal.com/

Here is one that I got to work:

<<"([^"\\]|""|\\.)*">>

Cheers,

/Per

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 19:17, Andrew Smellie <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi
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> I am trying to write a regular expression that will parse a quoted string
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> This is what I have so far:     QUOTEDSTRING = <<"([^"]|"")*+">>
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> How can I modify this to allow double quotes inside the quoted string,
> perhaps denoted by an escape character? An example of such a string might
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> "\"a quoted string\"" would be parsed to read "a quoted string"
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> As an aside, I cast around for different parser generators and have found
> grammatica the easiest to use!
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> Thanks
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> Andrew
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