regex find characters between " "

Question

How can I match all characters between 2 specified characters, say " " -> from sdfsf " 12asdf " sdf

I want to get 12asdf only.

Answer 1

You can use the following pattern to get everything between " ", including the leading and trailing white spaces:

"(.*?)"

or

"([^"]*)"

If you want to capture everything between the " " excluding the leading and trailing white spaces you can do:

"s*(.*?)s*"

or

"s*([^"]*)s*"