I am looking for a way to RegEx match for a string (double quote followed by one or more letter, digit, or space followed by another double quote). For example, if the input was var s = "\"this is a string\"", I would like to create a RegEx to match this string and produce a result of [""this is a string""].
Thank you!
Use the RegExp constructor function.
var s = "this is a string";
var re = new RegExp(s);
Note that you may need to quote the input string.
var metaChars = /([[\]\*{}\^\$\\.|?+-])/g; var re = new RegExp(s.replace(metaChars, '\\$1'));This should do what you need.
s =~ /"[^"]*"/
The regex matches a double quote, followed by some number of non-quotes, followed by a quote. You'll run into problems if your string has a quote in it, like this:
var s = "\"I love you,\" she said"
Then you'll need something a bit more complicated like this:
s =~ /"([^"]|\\")*"/
I just needed a pattern to match a double quote followed by one or more characters(letters, digits, spaces) followed by another double quote so this did it for me:
/"[^"]*"/
RegExpconstructor