Regular expression to Extract substring

Question

I have a string like below

url(\'/testProject/Images/Current/Universal/Styles/MasterPage_HomeIcon.gif\') repeat-x

How can I extract the substri

Answer 1

If you do not want ' to be part of the matched group:

/'([^']*)'/

Answer 2

Like this? (Assuming PCRE)

/(\'.*\')/

Answer 3

If you want to check the surrounding text:

/url\(('[^']+')\)/

If the surrounding text does not matter:

/('[^']+')/

The [^'] selects all characters except the closing quote.