Re: How to match last word in quotes in a sentence in Lua

["Peter Loveday" <peter@...>]

I’m sure there are many solutions.. but maybe something like:

   sentence:match("\"([a-zA-Z0-9 ]+)\"[^\"]+$")

(match a quoted string, but anchored to the end and with no other quotes 
after it)

- Peter


From: Igor
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 7:52 PM
To: lua-l@lists.lua.org
Subject: How to match last word in quotes in a sentence in Lua

How to match last quoted word in a sentence (or first in quotes from end) 
and print it without quotes?

Example: I "need" a help with "regular" expressions.

Output: regular

I used this example: sentence = I "need" a help with "regular" expressions. 
quoted = sentence:match("\"[a-zA-Z0-9 ]+\""), but it matches both quoted 
words.

Thanks


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