How to match double quote or single quote or unquoted with regular expression?

Question

I am trying to grab sometext from all three types of inputs, but can\'t figure out how to deal with the unquoted case.

So far I have:

name=[\'\"](.         


        

Answer 1

I would use the OR operator | to specify the three cases separatly:

('[^'"]*')|("[^'"]*")|([^'"]*)

Depending on the regex dialect you are using, you have to define non matching groups separated by the OR operators, and matching groups for the words [^'"]*.