I have a file which has multiple rows like below:

"47058";"post";keyword1;"Why is x bad?";"https://example.com/why-is-x-bad/"
"47059";"post";keyword2;"Why is y bad?";"https://example.com/why-is-y-bad/"

I want a regex that only matches keyword1 and keyword2, basically any string inside ;; but excluding ;"";

Goal: Add "" around keyword1 and keyword2

CodePudding user response：

Basically, you want all matches where the keyword is just a set of letters surrounded by semi-colons (;) not surrounded by inverted commas(") followed by semi-colons.

Assuming the keyword only contains letters and nothing else.

You can use regex of ;[a-zA-Z] ;

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