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Finding Single-Quoted Strings
Searching for a single-quoted text string is even more difficult, because single quotes are often used to delimit a regular expression in place. Sometimes you can use the same regex format as the double-quoted method and enclose the whole regex in double quotes. If you can’t, then the single quotes will need to be escaped as well.
Here is a sample regular expression that matches single-quoted strings. These have a single quote at each end but may not contain a quote. This search pattern is escaped so that it can be embedded into a regex that is enclosed in single quotes:
\’[^\’]*\’
Note the character range is ...
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