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On 5/25/2012 3:12 PM, Robert Klemme wrote:

> "\"(?:\\\\.|[^\\\"])*\"|'(?:\\\\.|[^\\'])*'"


This looks overly baroque to me.  You don't need to escape \ single 
quotes ' in a Java string, and I don't think you need to in a regex 
either (although I didn't check that).  I'm also not seeing the need for 
the parenthesis around the character classes [] (but again, without 
having tried it, I could be wrong).  And the dot . inside the 
parenthesis just looks wrong.

Great post overall though.