Any Regex Gurus -

[Prashant Maheshwari]

I can extract all text between good and quotes by search good.*"

How to modify to extract between two quotes starting from good

good for me",yo

hello how are we doing my brother "good for me",yo","what you say?"

[David G Wagner]

good[^"]*"[^"]* Will give you:

good for me",yo"

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[eu...@gmx.de]

Try this:

Search pattern:  "\b(.*)(")(.*)\b“

Replace pattern:  "\1\3“

This changes  "good for me",yo“ to  "good for me,yo“

And then:

Search pattern:  (\w),(\w)

Replace pattern:  „\1, \2“

To change "good for me,yo“ to "good for me, yo“

Hope I understood your need.

Ulrich

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[Prashant Maheshwari]

Thank you both !!! 

I had completely forgotten negation [^ and word boundaries \b !

[Prashant Maheshwari]

If you don't mind my followup questions 

good[^"]*"[^"]* Will give you:

This one reads 

1. Match good

2. Ignore first Inverted Comma after good ??--> I'm sure I'm wrong 

3. Match everything till Inverted Commas (greedy) -->???

4. Ignore Inverted Comma again 

On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 7:32:56 PM UTC+5:30 Ulrich Kapp wrote:

[Kaveh]

Hi Prashant

A very good site to test regex is Regex101. For some reason it is showing engine error for me now. But it will give you a description of the regex. Here is how I would describe the pattern:

• good – Match "good" exactly
• [^"]* – 0 or more of any character except double quote (greedy)
• " – Quote character
• [^"]* – 0 or more of any character except double quote (greedy)
  

Does that help?

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