regex match text in either single or double quote

Question

I want to match strings like:

The sentence is \'He said \"Hello there\"\'
The sentence is \"He said \'Hello there\'\"

and get back a single

Answer 1

Very sad, but such an elegant and accurate way does not work:

(["'])(?:\\\1|[^\1]+)*\1

But we can change it a little bit, and all works fine:

(["'])((?:\\\1|(?:(?!\1)).)*)(\1)

https://regex101.com/r/dKdBMT/2

I would like to make sure that this regexp will work in all cases: please more test it.