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On 5/25/2012 2:45 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> I often have to search for things of the form
>
> "xxxxx"
> or
> 'xxxxx'
>
> where xxx is anything not " or '.  It might be Russian or English or
> any other language.
>
> What is the cleanest way to do that?


Would this work?

  '[^']+'|"[^"]+"