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Old 11-18-2014, 01:54 PM   #435
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
That is also a different case.

Note that my, WORKING, solution is not a true regular expression either. But regular expressions are not nearly as useful as regex+lookaround, so it was decided that regular expressions need not in fact be regular.
Yeah, it works, sorta. But it matches all paragraphs with quotation marks, whether or not they are "valid", i.e. matched or balanced. This was first reported by the OP in msg #428, above.
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