How to extract a substring using regex

Question

I have a string that has two single quotes in it, the \' character. In between the single quotes is the data I want.

How can I write a regex to extract

Answer 1

as in javascript:

mydata.match(/'([^']+)'/)[1]

the actual regexp is: /'([^']+)'/

if you use the non greedy modifier (as per another post) it's like this:

mydata.match(/'(.*?)'/)[1]

it is cleaner.