Regex is still a pain for me, I need to match any ...
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09/19/2021, 5:46 PMRegex is still a pain for me, I need to match any whitespace outside double quotas, how can I match the first two here?
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Tobias Berger
09/20/2021, 2:59 PMI don't think that's something regex can really do on its own. I guess you will probably need to somehow separate the quoted oarts of your string from the rest first and then do your search for whitespaces only where you want to find them.
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Matteo Mirk
09/21/2021, 7:37 AMHow about this? Does it cover your use case?
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elect
09/21/2021, 7:42 AMHey Matteo, I solved this way
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Matteo Mirk
09/21/2021, 7:44 AMhi, so your requirement was to match all whitespace except double quotes? Initially I understood you wanted all the ws surrounding a quoted block
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09/21/2021, 7:44 AMsorry, my bad
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Matteo Mirk
09/21/2021, 7:56 AMOhh I get it now… all whitespace except those inside double quotes, got it! Don’t worry
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