How to resolve this problem with Regular Expression?

Hi there, i need a Regular expression for finding a line with this:

Example





and cahnge it to :


Notice that i need the same word inside the quotes, y only need the regex for adding the escape slashes to the line in front of the quotes.......

NOTE: I dont know why is not shown the first slash??? so thats a forum error or protection!..-----
Thanks!

Are you trying to do slash quoting of quotation marks.
If this is in PHP:
Maybe you could have a look at the string addslashes (string str) function
You could also just use str_replace(search, replace, subject)

If I'm missing the idea, just tell me.

Here is the regex:
for the matching:
="(.*?)"
for the replacement
=/"\1/"

im not trying to do it within the php program or script, i want to do it using a text editor. Im using Textpad that support RegEx...

can you not use back references like \1 ?
try the find bit like this:

and the replace bit:


isn't as good as because will match any quote that doesn't have an equals infront of it. but if you can't use back refs..

With the note you added to your first post, do you just want all quotes escaped? That doesn't need a regex, just search for " and replace with \" If you don't want the quote following the = to be escaped, but all others should be, we'd need to know more about what kind of regex your editor supports. I use UltraEdit and it had it own odd version of regular expressions that I had to learn to use, but in recent versions, unix-style support has been added, which I'm much more familliar with.

In perl, I'd use something like this:
s/(?<!=)"/\\"/
Perl supports a variety of zero width assertions (don't know how many are standard supported), positive and negative, look-ahead and look-behind. This one uses negative look-behind. (?<!pattern) matches so long as pattern does not match what comes immediately before it, in this case, an equals sign. Since it's zero-width, it doesn't actually consume the character in the match, and there's no need for explicit back references.