MystPi/escaped_string_regex.py

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A regex to parse escaped strings.

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escaped_string_regex.py

	import re
	regex = re.compile(r'(["\']).?(?<!\\)(\\\\)?\1')

gosoccerboy5 commented Jul 30, 2021

I think I understand how it works. This is pretty cool

gosoccerboy5 commented Jul 30, 2021 •

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I made a slightly simpler regex:

/("|')[^\\\n]*?(\\\\)*\1/g

https://regex101.com/r/btR3uw/1

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MystPi commented Jul 30, 2021

I made a slightly simpler regex:
/("|')[^\\\n]*?(\\\\)*\1/g
https://regex101.com/r/btR3uw/1

Oh, nice!

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