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

In case, like me, you're afraid of regex, I've put together a functional way to do it, based on your example string. There's probably a way to make the code shorter, but I haven't found it yet.

private static string RemoveQuotes(IEnumerable input)
{
    string part = new string(input.TakeWhile(c => c != '"' && c != '\'').ToArray());
    var rest = input.SkipWhile(c => c != '"' && c != '\'');
    if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(new string(rest.ToArray())))
        return part;
    char delim = rest.First();
    var afterIgnore = rest.Skip(1).SkipWhile(c => c != delim).Skip(1);
    StringBuilder full = new StringBuilder(part);
    return full.Append(RemoveQuotes(afterIgnore)).ToString();
}