matching square brackets while skipping those in double quotes

[Qianqian Fang]

Dear regex experts:

I am writing a JSON parser in matlab. I am looking for a faster way to match array marks ([...]) while not getting confused for anything inside pairs of double quotes. 

here is a testing string:

["a", "b\\", "c\"", [ "d\\\"","e\"[" ], "f\\\"[", [ "g[\\","h]\\\"" ] ]

any tricks to match the real array brackets (there are 6 of them)

and skip the ones in the double quotes (there are 4 of them) ?

I tried the following 3 steps in matlab

s='["a", "b\\", "c\"", [ "d\\\"","e\"[" ], "f\\\"[", [ "g[\\","h]\\\"" ] ]';

s=regexprep(s,'\\\\','  ');

s=regexprep(s,'\\\"','  ');

s=regexprep(s,'(\"[^"]*\")','${char($1*0+char(32))}');

that gives

s =

[   ,      ,      , [        ,       ],         , [       ,         ] ]

it first strips the double quotes before finding the brackets. But I feel it is

not so robust (maybe fails under some strange conditions?). I am wondering 

if anyone knows a more robust approach, ideally does not involve dynamic 

regexp.

a perl or matlab sample command would be great!

thanks in advance

Qianqian

[Prashant Patole]

in .Net i could get it by this find string

"(?:[^"\\]|\\.)*"

and replace by empty string

Prashant

+91 9423968815

https://in.linkedin.com/in/prashantpatole

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Prashant

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