Regular expressions: dealing w/ strings

[amitrus]

I am trying to make a regular expression that will select the contents of a string. For example, if this:

"Hi o silver, \"all that stuff\" and more!"

were the input, I would like to select everything from "Hi" to "more!". The problem I am running up against is making a regex that will select everything but a combination of characters. Namely, I would like to select everything between two double quotes that is not this:

\"
(an escaped quote)

this seems natural but doesn't work: /"[^\"]*"/

Thanks,
Amitrus

[renegade888]

I think that this might work:

/"[^(\")]*"/

because without the ()'s you are saying that you don't want any \'s or "'s in your expression.

Give it a shot.