regex - find the value between quotes for a particular key

Question

From a string, I have to find the 'value' for a particular key(variable)
to find a regex pattern to find the value between the quotes.

keyx:'value1',keyn:'value2', keys....

like for keyn - the regex must return value2

It is not a json format. This string is extracted from an XML tag.

I have tried this regex (["'])(?:(?=(\?))\2.)*?\1 and trying to modify it to make it work for my scenario

How about: `(?<=keyx:')[^']+(?=')` ? ... assuming that the values would always be surrounded by single quotes. — Tim Biegeleisen, Oct 23 '18 at 14:16
What language are you using this in? If you split string by "," , then you could use something `'.+'` to match on each of the split bits — Rashmirathi, Oct 23 '18 at 14:17
@Rashmirathi What if some of the values have commas inside them? — Tim Biegeleisen, Oct 23 '18 at 14:18
Possible duplicate of [Regex to get string between curly braces "{I want what's between the curly braces}"](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/413071/regex-to-get-string-between-curly-braces-i-want-whats-between-the-curly-brace) — Poul Bak, Oct 23 '18 at 14:36
@PoulBak the one that you marked duplicate is a different scenario. I think you cant understand the question — user1514499, Oct 23 '18 at 14:41

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 23 '18 at 15:08

You can use the following regex to your values:

key\w:'(.*?)'[, ]*?

You need to set the global flag.

The regex starts by mathing 'key' followed by a Word char, colon and a single quote, then creates a capture Group of everything between the single quotes, followed by a single quote, and zero or more commas and Spaces.

You get your value from Group 1. That will produce 'value1' and 'value2'.

regex - find the value between quotes for a particular key

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