Surma • 5/2/2018

My most useful RegExp trick

This technical article explains a powerful and reliable regular expression pattern for extracting quoted strings from text, using JavaScript examples. It critiques naive approaches like /.*?/ and demonstrates a more correct pattern: /"([^"\\]|\\.)*"/gus. The post details how this pattern correctly handles escaped characters (like \") and why it's superior to common, suboptimal solutions found online.

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