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On 5/26/2012 6:19 AM, Roedy Green wrote:

>          exercisePattern( Pattern.compile( "\"[^\"]+\"|'[^']+'" ) ); //
> works, rejects empty strings by Mark Space.


If you want it to accept empty strings, replace the +'s with *'s.  You 
didn't specify empty strings in your original problem statement, so I 
decided to disallow them.

Thanks for posting that SSCCE, btw.  I was too lazy to cook one up.