Greetings, fellow monks.

First of all it's good to be here again, since I'm involved in a PHP project, I was out of the Perl world for a long time.

I have a nasty problem with a regex question. Yes, I'm honestly doing it in PHP, but since regexes are almost standard, I was hoping someone here can help me.

I have a SQL statement that goes with something like this:

INSERT INTO TABLENAME VALUES ('bunch of text','another text');

My problem is that "a bunch of text" may contain simple quotes like I'm or 'cool'. Since I don't know how many simple quotes will appear or in what position of the text, I could only make a "wide open" and pretty stupid regex like:

/\'.*\'.*\'/

Is it even possible to achieve this level of searching in a regex?

Any thoughts would be greatefully appreciated.

Best regards,

my ($author_nickname, $author_email) = ("DaWolf","erabbott\@terra.com.br") if ($author_name eq "Er Galvão Abbott");

In reply to Impossible RegEx? by DaWolf

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