regular expression to retrieve text within single quotes

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Re: regular expression to retrieve text within single quotes by rinceWind (Monsignor) on May 11, 2005 at 12:12 UTC
`/'([^']+)'/` should do the trick. -- I'm Not Just Another Perl Hacker	[reply] [d/l]
Re: regular expression to retrieve text within single quotes by gellyfish (Monsignor) on May 11, 2005 at 12:09 UTC
I think you are missing something from your description of the problem but if one is to take you at your word then something like: `my $foo = "'stuff in quotes'"; $foo =~ /'(.*)'/ and $foo = $1; print $foo;` [download] should suffice. /J\	[reply] [d/l]
Re: regular expression to retrieve text within single quotes by tlm (Prior) on May 11, 2005 at 12:16 UTC
I would vote for `/'(.?)'/` [download] or maybe even `/'(.?)'/s` [download] in case the quoted text includes newlines. the lowliest monk	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: regular expression to retrieve text within single quotes by thcsoft (Monk) on May 11, 2005 at 12:35 UTC
lol... :) so, here's yet another one: `my $newstring = ''; while ($string =~ /(\'\|\")(.?)\1/) { $newstring .= $2; }` [download] language is a virus from outer space.*	[reply] [d/l]
Re: regular expression to retrieve text within single quotes by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 11, 2005 at 14:14 UTC
It's not a regexp, but `$str = substr($str, 1, -1)` does the trick efficiently, assuming the quotes are guaranteed to be there.	[reply] [d/l]