Get string between double quotes python

I'm reading a response from a source which is an journal or an essay and I have the html response as a string like:

According to some, dreams express "profound aspects of personality" [Foulkes 184], though others disagree.

My goal is just to extract all of the quotes out of the given string and save each of them into a list. My approach was:

[match.start[] for m in re.Matches[inputString, "\"[[^\"]*]\""]]]

Somehow it didn't work for me. Any helps on my regex here? Thanks a lot.

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asked Mar 29, 2014 at 18:56

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Provided there are no nested quotes:

re.findall[r'"[[^"]*]"', inputString]

Demo:

>>> import re
>>> inputString = 'According to some, dreams express "profound aspects of personality" [Foulkes 184], though others disagree.'
>>> re.findall[r'"[[^"]*]"', inputString]
['profound aspects of personality']

answered Mar 29, 2014 at 18:57

Martijn Pieters♦Martijn Pieters

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Use this one if your input can have something like this: some "text \" and text" more

s = '''According to some, dreams express "profound aspects of personality" [Foulkes 184], though others disagree.'''
lst = re.findall[r'"[.*?][?
 answered Mar 29, 2014 at 18:59
 
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In this article, we will learn to extract strings in between the quotations using Python.
Method 1:
To extract strings
in between the quotations we can use findall[] method from re library.
Python3
import re
inputstring = ' some strings are present in between "geeks" "for" "geeks" '
print[re.findall['"[[^"]*]"', inputstring]]
Output:
['geeks', 'for', 'geeks']
Method 2:

  

We can extract strings in between the quotations using
split[] method and slicing.
Python3
inputstring = 'some strings are present in between "geeks" "for" "geeks" '
result = inputstring.split['"'][1::2]
print[result];
Output:
['geeks', 'for', 'geeks']
Here you can learn more about Regular
Expressions and list slicing in python.
Method 3: Using startswith[],endswith[] and replace[] methods
Python3
inputstring = 'some strings are present in between "geeks" "for" "geeks" '
result = inputstring.split[]
res=[]
for i in result:
    if[i.startswith[]]:
        i=i.replace['"',""]
        res.append[i]
print[res]
Output
['geeks', 'for', 'geeks']

 

			
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