Hi all, I have some strings. It contains one or more pairs of single quote or double quotes. Within the single or double quotes boundary, there will be some escaped quotes. My goal is to mask out anything within the single quotes or double quotes. My regular expression works fine in most cases but it fails when there is an escaped quotes. I tried to remove the \' first using this `s/\x5c\x27//g` but it didn't work. If it works, the test #2 result should look the same as test #1. 
$line = sprintf qq{Test #1 'Show me Waynes world','Jennys Basketball s
+hoes'\n};
$line =~ s/(['"]).+?(['"])/$1SSS$2/g;
print $line;

$line = sprintf qq{Test #2 'Show me Wayne\'s world','Jenny\'s Basketba
+ll shoes'\n};
$line =~ s/(['"]).+?(['"])/$1SSS$2/g;
print $line;



__END__
Test #1 'SSS','SSS'
Test #2 'SSS's world'SSS'Jenny'SSS'

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In reply to skip over an escaped single quote by bplegend

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