Regex for quoted string

Note

Handles escaped quotes inside the string: a backslash and any character count as one unit.

Matches in the example

• "\"hello\""
• "\"she said \\\"hi\\\"\""

Token by token

1. " the character “"”
2. (?: a group, not capturing
3. [^"\\] any character except “"” or the character “\”
4. | or
5. \\ the character “\”
6. . any character except a line break
7. )* end of group, whole group zero or more times, as many as possible
8. " the character “"”

Other patterns

• Email address
• URL
• IPv4 address
• UUID
• Hex color
• Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
• Time (24-hour)
• US phone number
• Phone number (E.164)
• US ZIP code
• Credit card number
• URL slug
• Username
• Strong password
• HTML tag
• Semantic version
• MAC address
• JSON Web Token
• Hashtag
• @mention
• Number
• Leading and trailing whitespace
• Repeated word
• Blank lines
• Markdown link
• Quoted string
• Domain name
• File extension
• Base64
• Trailing comma