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From: Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
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Subject: Re: simple regex pattern sought
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markspace wrote:
> 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.

As I correct6ed in my very next post.

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Lew
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