javascript regex for extracting filename from Content-Disposition header

Question

Content-disposition header contains filename which can be easily extracted, but sometimes it contains double quotes, sometimes no quotes and there are probably some other va

Answer 1

You could try something in this spirit:

filename[^;=\n]*=((['"]).*?\2|[^;\n]*)

filename      # match filename, followed by
[^;=\n]*      # anything but a ;, a = or a newline
=
(             # first capturing group
    (['"])    # either single or double quote, put it in capturing group 2
    .*?       # anything up until the first...
    \2        # matching quote (single if we found single, double if we find double)
|             # OR
    [^;\n]*   # anything but a ; or a newline
)

Your filename is in the first capturing group: http://regex101.com/r/hJ7tS6