Using regular expressions in ruby ​​to find a string in quotes

Question

I am trying to build a regex to find a string in ruby

str = "foo"

I want to stop trying to find the string after it finds the closing quotation mark. I also want to keep quotes so that I can output the string I found as:

puts "the string is:" + str
=> the string is: "foo"

I am new to using regular expressions.

Answer 1

Here is the start:

/".*?"/

Explanation:

"Match a literal double quote.
. *? Match any characters, as few as possible (non-greedy)
"Match a second literal double quote.

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Note that this will not work if the string contains escaped quotes or is quoted with single quotes.