Re: extract escaped quoted strings

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On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 19:16 -0400, Adam Jacob Muller wrote:
> Hi,
> Have a potentially interesting question here, wondering if anyone has  
> done this one before and could shed some light for me.
> I have a bit of PHP code that needs to extract some quoted strings,  
> so, very simply:
> "hello"
> perfectly fine and works great
> but, it should also be able to extract
> "hel\"lo"
> bit more complex now
> 
> Ideally, it would also handle
> "hel\\"lo"
> properly
> 
> it should also handle
> "hel\\\"lo"
> 
> 
> Any ideason how to do this? attempts to write a PCRE to do this are so- 
> far unsuccessful, i'm sure I could badger some PHP code into doing it  
> perhaps, but i'd love some elegant PCRE solution that thus-far evades  
> me :(
> 
> 
> Any ideas are appreciated.

Extract quoted strings from what? The source makes a huge difference on
the complexity required to extract the strings.

Cheers,
Rob.
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