I want to build a simple regex that covers quoted strings, including any escaped quotes within them. For instance,
"This is valid"
"This is \" also \" valid"
Obviously, something like
"([^"]*)"
does not work, because it matches up to the first escaped quote.
What is the correct version?
I suppose the answer would be the same for other escaped characters (by just replacing the respective character).
By the way, I am aware of the "catch-all" regex
"(.*?)"
but I try to avoid it whenever possible, because, not surprisingly, it runs somewhat slower than a more specific one.