How to get data between quotes that isn't surrounded by parenthesis

January 26, 2022

I’m trying to parse actionscript files and I’m trying figure out a regex that determines whether a line contains a string but at the same time that string isn’t a parameter of a function.

So something like this would be fine and return "derping around" without quotes.

_root.bun = "derping around";

This would also be fine and return "(derping around with parentheses)" without quotes

_root.bun = "(derping around with parenthesis)";

This is no good as the quotes are surrounded by parentheses so we return nothing.

gotoAndPlay("derp");

I was looking at this question and while the answer solves a good chunk of my problem I don’t know how I’m supposed to change it to check if theres parentheses around the quotes. Here’s the link.

how to get data between quotes in java?

Any help would be appreciated as I’ve been stuck on this for over a day.