How to match string in single or double quoted using regex

Question

I\'m trying to write a regex that matches strings as the following:

translate(\"some text here\")

and

translate(\'some text here\'

Answer 1

You can alternate expression components using the pipe (|) like this:

preg_match ('/translate(\("(.*?)"\)|\(\'(.*?)\'\))/', $line, $m)

Edit: previous also matched translate("some text here'). This should work but you will have to escape the quotes in some languages.