Regex pattern to choose data BETWEEN matching quotation marks

Question

Suppose I had the following string I wanted to run a Regular expression on:

This is a test string with \"quotation-marks\" within it.
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Answer 1

What you need to do is explicitly only match strings inside quotes that have -.

Use this:

(\"[^"]*.*?)-(.*?\")

Working example: http://regex101.com/r/jK5eL9

The only catch here is that it will only work for single instances of word-word in quotes. If you had, say, "word-word, and word-word" it will fail.