For the life of me I can't figure this one out.
I need to search the following text, matching only the quotes in bold:
Don't match: """This is a python docstring"""
Match: " This is a regular string "
Match: "" ← That is an empty string
How can I do this with a regular expression?
Here's what I've tried:
Doesn't work:
(?!"")"(?<!"")
Close, but doesn't match double quotes.
Doesn't work:
"(?<!""")|(?!"")"(?<!"")|(?!""")"
I naively thought that I could add the alternates that I don't want but the logic ends up reversed. This one matches everything because all quotes match at least one of the alternates.
(Please note: I'm not running the code, so solutions around using __doc__ won't help, I'm just trying to find and replace in my code editor.)