Please help me with adjusting regexp. I need to cut all text inside the external quotation signs. I have text:

some text "have "some text" here "that should" be cut"

My regexp:

some text "(?<name>[^"]*)"

Need to get

have "some text" here "that should" be cut

But I've got

have

CodePudding user response：

If you want to supported the first level of nested double quotes you can use

some text "(?<name>[^"]*(?:"[^"]*"[^"]*)*)"

See the regex demo.

Details:

• [^"]* - zero or more chars other than double quotes
• (?:"[^"]*"[^"]*)* - zero or more repetitions of
  • "[^"]*" - a substring between double quotes that contains no other double quotes
  • [^"]* - zero or more chars other than double quotes.

If your regex flavor supports recursion:

some text ("(?<name>(?:[^"]  |\g<1>)*)")

See this regex demo. Here, ("(?<name>(?:[^"] |\g<1>)*)") is a capturing group #1 that matches

• " - a " char
• (?<name>(?:[^"] |\g<1>)*) - Group "name": zero or more sequences of
  • [^"] - one or more chars other than "
  • | - or
  • \g<1> - Group 1 pattern recursed
• " - a " char

CodePudding user response：

Assuming you want to remove all text up to the first quotes then retain everything till the last quote, you can try this.

Demo

[[:alpha:]][^"]*\"(?<name>.*)"