[email protected] wrote:
> Why this regex for string literals
> can't handle escaped quotes?.... '"(\\.|[^"])*"'
>
> See this...
>
>>>> string_re = '"(\\.|[^"])*"'
>
>>>> re.match(string_re, '"aaaa"')
> <_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 6), match='"aaaa"'>
>
>>>> re.match(string_re, '"aa\"aa"')
> <_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 4), match='"aa"'>
>
> How make the last match be the entire string '"aa\"aa"' ?
>
> cs
You did not escape the string literals:
>>> '"aa\"aa"' == '"aa"aa"'
True
Once you fix this for both the regex and the search string you get the
expected match:
>>> re.match('"(\\\\.|[^"])*"', '"aa\\"aa"')
<_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 8), match='"aa\\"aa"'>
Raw strings make this a bit easier to read:
>>> re.match(r'"(\\.|[^"])*"', r'"aa\"aa"')
<_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 8), match='"aa\\"aa"'>
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