Data Validation

[corliss at alaskapm.org]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Michael Fowler wrote:

> Regexen to get the unquoted part out of a quoted string.  Backwacking the
> quote character, and backwacking the backwack are dealt with:
> 
> single-quoted string: '((?:\\\\|\\'|[^\\']+)*)'
> double-quoted string: "((?:\\\\|\\"|[^\\"]+)*)"
> 
> It'd be nice if I could combine them, using \1, but as far as I
> can tell, \1 can't be used in a character class, and that negated character
> class is a must.

:-)  That's a good one.  I could see some good uses for that one. . .

	--Arthur Corliss
	  Perl Monger/Alaska Perl Mongers
	  http://www.alaskapm.org/

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