Regex question

[Matt Kidd]

I've got a large json string that I need to replace the apostrophes within certain URLs. I can't do a wholesale replaceAll as I need some of the apostrophes to remain. So far this it the regex I have:

("photo": ")(.*?)(")


It matches:

"photo": "http:\/\/theastrologer.com\/matchme\/images\/photos\/Snoop Dogg.jpg"

and

"photo": "http:\/\/theastrologer.com\/matchme\/images\/photos\/Shaquille O'Neal.jpg"

but I only want it to match the 2nd. Any ideas?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

How about this?

("photo": ")(.*?'.*?)(")

I changed your dot (match any character) to matching any characters followed by a single quote followed by any characters.

[Matt Kidd]

Thanks. It's better but now, since there is another node in the json object containing the single quote, it's also being greedy before what should be the first "photo: " it encounters.

I guess ideally it should only get the first one. Hmmmm....

[Matt Kidd]

Getting closer....so far I can get all the urls that end with jpg however if I can I could improve it to only give me the ones with a single apostrophe that'd be better.

([\w- ]+\.)+[\w-]+(\\/[\w- .\\/']*)