regular expression - matching a string

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yoni

Hey
I need the regexp pattern to match a single quoted string. its a bit
tricky since double single quotes in the middle are part of the
string, and we should continue to capture till the next single quote.
an example:

'this is ''all'' one string!'

get it? who can help me?
thanks!
 
Hey
I need the regexp pattern to match a single quoted string. its a bit
tricky since double single quotes in the middle are part of the
string, and we should continue to capture till the next single quote.
an example:

'this is ''all'' one string!'

get it? who can help me?
thanks!
Click to expand...

Does this work?
'([^']|'')*'

Christof
 
Hey
I need the regexp pattern to match a single quoted string. its a bit
tricky since double single quotes in the middle are part of the
string, and we should continue to capture till the next single quote.
an example:

'this is ''all'' one string!'

get it? who can help me?
thanks!
Click to expand...

Try this

'(.*)'
 

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