Re^2: How to Modify Only Non-Quoted Words?

Don't know if it's relevant to the problem but both your and ikegami's solutions fail when contractions enter into the "word" list.

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Re^3: How to Modify Only Non-Quoted Words? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 31, 2004 at 05:49 UTC
If you want to escape quotes oustide of quoted strings, change `( # $2 [^\s"']+ # Something to prefix. )` [download] to `( # $2 (?:[^\s"'\\]\|\\.)+ # Something to prefix. )` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]