Regex For Matching A Quoted String With Possible Escape Characters
I seek a regular expression, pcre or ereg (it doesn't matter), which,
given a quoted string (e.g. "foo" => foo) will return the contained
text, but that will accommodate escaped quote characters within the
string (e.g. "foo"bar" => foo"bar).
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