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Regex/Sed:

Useful resources:

• regex101, Helps to test regex patterns

Features:

• Alternative Delimiter

  • You don't have to use / as a delimiter
  • you can use #, @ or something else

• Backreferencing,

  • you can capture a bit of text in the pattern section, with (.*)
  • then backreference it's index in the repalce part with \1, \2, \3...: %%% s#"(.*)"#'\1'#

  // Input: "hello" "how are you?" "good"

  //Output 'hello' 'how are you?' 'good' %%%