[spiros]

There are phrases in a line which are delimited by opening and closing quote, like the ones below. I am trying to find a regex that would match the word/phrase with the comma as internal delimiter (or the whole externally delimited content if there is no comma as in the case of a single word/phrase). For example for these phrases:

‘verdichten’
‘verdichten, verstopfen’
‘dunkel, finster, wolkig’
‘fort sein, verloren sein, verloren’
‘von den Nymph ergriffen, verzückt, verrückt’
‘der sich halten kann, halten kann’

The result I would like would be:

[[verdichten]]
[[verdichten]], [[verstopfen]]
[[dunkel]], [[finster]], [[wolkig]]
[[fort sein]], [[verloren sein]], [[verloren]]
[[von den Nymph ergriffen]], [[verzückt]], [[verrückt]]
[[der sich halten kann]], [[halten kann]]

[David]

I don’t know if this will help you:
Find: (‘)(.+?)(’)
Replace: \J “\1”.replace(/‘/g,”[[“) + “\2″.replace(/, /g,”]],[[“) + “\3″.replace(/’/g,”]]”)

[spiros]

Thanks! This is what I got as output (with regular expression on):

J “‘”.replace(/‘/g,”[[“) + “verdichten″.replace(/, /g,”]],[[“) + “’″.replace(/’/g,”]]”)
J “‘”.replace(/‘/g,”[[“) + “verdichten, verstopfen″.replace(/, /g,”]],[[“) + “’″.replace(/’/g,”]]”)
J “‘”.replace(/‘/g,”[[“) + “dunkel, finster, wolkig″.replace(/, /g,”]],[[“) + “’″.replace(/’/g,”]]”)
J “‘”.replace(/‘/g,”[[“) + “fort sein, verloren sein, verloren″.replace(/, /g,”]],[[“) + “’″.replace(/’/g,”]]”)
J “‘”.replace(/‘/g,”[[“) + “von den Nymph ergriffen, verzückt, verrückt″.replace(/, /g,”]],[[“) + “’″.replace(/’/g,”]]”)
J “‘”.replace(/‘/g,”[[“) + “der sich halten kann, halten kann″.replace(/, /g,”]],[[“) + “’″.replace(/’/g,”]]”)

[Mr KT]

This works for me (using version 19.1 which supports named groups):
Find:
((?<=^)|(?<=, ))‘?(?<word_or_phrase>[^‘,’]+)’?
Replace:
[[\k<word_or_phrase>]]

One of 2 possible positive lookbehinds, followed by your potential opening quote, then capture your word/phrase (which can’t include quotes or comma), check for potential closing quote

[David]

I guess you missed the first \ character in “replace” .Please see my screenshot. It’s \J ,instead of J.

[spiros]

Hi David, no I did not miss it… strange.

The 1st solution mentioned here seemed to work even in older versions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58084119/match-strings-between-delimiting-characters
Did not test Mr KT’s solution as my version is older.

Thank you very much both.

[Author]

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