How can I remove quoted string literals from a string in C#?

Question

I have a string:

Hello \"quoted string\" and \'tricky\"stuff\' world

and want to get the string minus the quoted parts back. E.g.,

Answer 1

resultString = Regex.Replace(subjectString, 
    @"([""'])# Match a quote, remember which one
    (?:      # Then...
     (?!\1)  # (as long as the next character is not the same quote as before)
     .       # match any character
    )*       # any number of times
    \1       # until the corresponding closing quote
    \s*      # plus optional whitespace
    ", 
    "", RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace);

will work on your example.

resultString = Regex.Replace(subjectString, 
    @"([""'])# Match a quote, remember which one
    (?:      # Then...
     (?!\1)  # (as long as the next character is not the same quote as before)
     \\?.    # match any escaped or unescaped character
    )*       # any number of times
    \1       # until the corresponding closing quote
    \s*      # plus optional whitespace
    ", 
    "", RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace);

will also handle escaped quotes.

So it will correctly transform

Hello "quoted \"string\\" and 'tricky"stuff' world

into

Hello and world