Match all characters excluding ones "inside the double quote"

[Frozen]

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@thols wrote:

\!\$abCD will work.

I usually use https://regex101.com to test regexes. It gives direct and clear feedback.

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I like using https://rubular.com/ for RegEx testing.

[anhduy92]

Thank you for your idea but in your case, if I don't have the "Plus" + as the format of the expression, nothing can be matched. + ... + is just my example. I would like to match all strings (with some special characters I mentioned above) excluding the strings "inside the double quote"

[thols]

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@anhduy92 wrote:

Thank you for your idea but in your case, if I don't have the "Plus" + as the format of the expression, nothing can be matched. + ... + is just my example. I would like to match all strings (with some special characters I mentioned above) excluding the strings "inside the double quote"

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Well, here's one way to get everything except what is inside quotes:

It's just what I came up with now but I'm sure there's a simpler way.

[Yamaeda]

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@thols wrote:

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Well, here's one way to get everything except what is inside quotes:

It's just what I came up with now but I'm sure there's a simpler way.

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I don't know if it's been improved, but that solution is very slow if the string gets big (it bit me in a project as i started on this job). It's better to send the 'index found' to the shift register and use it for 'start at index'. That way no string needs to be reallocated. 🙂 

/Y

[Yamaeda]

I did a test, the difference isn't very big nowadays, using index is some 10-20% faster and more consistant, but not a huge thing. 🙂

[thols]

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@Yamaeda wrote:...

I don't know if it's been improved, but that solution is very slow if the string gets big (it bit me in a project as i started on this job). It's better to send the 'index found' to the shift register and use it for 'start at index'. That way no string needs to be reallocated. 🙂 

/Y

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Of course, how sloppy of me:

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@thols wrote:

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@Yamaeda wrote:...

I don't know if it's been improved, but that solution is very slow if the string gets big (it bit me in a project as i started on this job). It's better to send the 'index found' to the shift register and use it for 'start at index'. That way no string needs to be reallocated. 🙂 

/Y

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Of course, how sloppy of me:

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Shouldn't that shift register be initialized?

Spoiler

It should.

[wiebe@CARYA]

I think this does the same:

Or, if you just want all quoted strings removed: