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Roedy Green wrote:
> Lets say you wanted to find strings of the form
>  "cat"

Do you mean 

   "cat"

including the quotation marks?

>  "naïve"

Do you mean 

   "naïve"

including the quotation marks?

Or do you mean to literally find the escape characters, ", e.g., as an HTML 
parser might?

> What sort of regex would you use?  or would you resort to custom code?

Are you trying to find all substrings either "cat" or "naïve", or just one or the other 
for any given search?

Or does "of the form" mean something else?

If you're looking for ways to parse HTML escape characters, you could just look for the 
'&' character then match against a table such as the one on 
http://www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/articles/entity-escape-characters.php

-- 
Lew

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regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-29 13:46 -0700
  Re: regex puzzle Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-29 14:48 -0700
    Re: regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-30 05:59 -0700
      Re: regex puzzle "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-10-30 14:48 +0100
        Re: regex puzzle markspace <-@.> - 2012-10-30 14:16 -0700
          Re: regex puzzle "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-10-31 09:54 +0100
            Re: regex puzzle markspace <-@.> - 2012-10-31 11:25 -0700
              Re: regex puzzle "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-01 13:56 +0100
                Re: regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-11-01 18:46 -0700
          Re: regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-31 07:09 -0700
        Re: regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-31 07:11 -0700
          Re: regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-31 16:22 -0700
            Re: regex puzzle markspace <-@.> - 2012-10-31 17:29 -0700
              Re: regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-11-01 18:43 -0700
  Re: regex puzzle Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-10-30 16:39 -0700
    Re: regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-31 07:33 -0700

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