in reply to Re^2: Basic regex to parse source code
in thread Basic regex to parse source code

In your regex, you do not have to escape the comma and your (.+) will slurp everything up to the last ] in your line, which is definitely not what you want. You only need the characters up to the next ', so the (negated) character class [^']+ will do what you want.

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