Regex to match specific functions and their arguments in files

Question

I\'m working on a gettext javascript parser and I\'m stuck on the parsing regex.

I need to catch every argument passed to a specific method call _n( and

Answer 1

We can do this in two steps:

1)catch all function arguments for _n( or _( method calls

(?:_\(|_n\()(?:[^()]*\([^()]*\))*[^()]*\)

See demo.

http://regex101.com/r/oE6jJ1/13

2)catch the stringy ones only

"([^"]*)"|(?:\(|,)\s*([^"),]*)(?=,|\))

See demo.

http://regex101.com/r/oE6jJ1/14