Grab double or single quoted text, escape aware

Published on Tue Mar 01 2022

^$ are only added for the test cases, handles escapes and the closing \\" situation

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Grab double or single quoted text, escape aware

Grab double or single quoted text, escape aware

^$ are only added for the test cases, handles escapes and the closing \\" situation

Match quoted strings, ignoring escaped quotes

Matches single or double quoted strings, and ignores backslash-escaped quotes within the string.

Escape Special Characters

Escapes special characters. Reference: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.php

parsing CSV file

It correctly handles simple values, empty values, and quoted values with commas inside.

Isolate string in double or single quotes

Isolate strings inside double or single quotes

Inside single quotes, escape aware

Allows the single quote to be escaped, handles the \\' situation

Split quotes and single words

Find " and ' quoted strings and "orphaned"/single words in a string

Outside Quotes

match any string outside of single or double quotes

Get inside single/double quotes

Get everything inside single/double quotes and ignoring escaped ones

Match multiline comments /* ... */

It won't match single line comments like this one: //* This comment won't be match */ ^ see the double / Works in PHP without the g modifier.