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Regex to Extract Quoted Text

Use this when you need content between double quotes while tolerating escaped characters in logs or config snippets.

Regex
/"([^"\\]*(?:\\.[^"\\]*)*)"/g

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Matches current input
He said "deploy now"

1 match found in the current text.

Passing examples

  • He said "deploy now"
  • "escaped \"quote\" ok"

Failing examples

  • no quotes here
  • 'single quotes only'

Code examples

JavaScript
const regex = /"([^"\\]*(?:\\.[^"\\]*)*)"/g;
regex.test(input);
Python
import re
pattern = re.compile(r""([^"\\]*(?:\\.[^"\\]*)*)"")
bool(pattern.search(input))
Go
re := regexp.MustCompile("\"([^\"\\\\]*(?:\\\\.[^\"\\\\]*)*)\"")
matched := re.MatchString(input)

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