Match string to regex in javascript

I'm having problems matching a string with a regex in JS. I can use this:

/"[^"]*?"/g

on this line:

" this is a string "

but I cannot use this in this:

" this is a \"string\" "

how can i fix this? thank.

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javascript string regex

moisrex 08 june 15 at 18:20

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If I understand correctly what you want to do is check if the string is in the correct format? so there are no premature line endings?

If so, you can use /"(?:[^"\\]|\\.)*"/g

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Morten olsen 08 june 15 at 18:37

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[^\\]?(".*?[^\\]")

You can try something like this. You will need to capture a group or capture and not match. See demo.

https://regex101.com/r/nS2lT4/30

or

(?:[^\\]|^)(".*?[^\\]")

See demo.

https://regex101.com/r/nS2lT4/31

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vks 08 june 15 at 18:24

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In this case, you shouldn't use [^"]*

, and you don't need anyone-greedy, you can use the following regex to match everything between two quotes:

/"(.*)"/g

And if you want to match anything in between "

, you can just use the word character match with the space helper in the character class with the global modifier:

/[\w\s]+/g

Alternatively, you can use negative appearance :

/(?<!\\)"(.*?)(?<!\\)"/

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Kasramvd 08 june 15 at 18:23

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