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On 5/25/2012 2:55 PM, Lew wrote:

>
> Use a regex like "[\"'][^\"']+[\"']" is one way. The cleanest? I don't know.
>

This would match "John's restaurant" as "John'.

The first quote matches ", John does not contain either ' or " as 
specified, and the last character class matches the '.  Not I think what 
is wanted.