On Wed, February 4, 2009 10:50 am, Gaal Yahas wrote:
> Removing all \' won't work, because \\' can mean
> "literal backslash and then real quote end". So you need something
> called negative look-behind assertion, thus:
>
> /(?<!\\)\\'/
That fails on \\\'. Since perl doesn't support variable width
look-behind, there is in fact no way to correctly use look-behind for
this.
You can only parse forwards, like:
/\G'(?:[^\\']+|\\.)+'/s
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