Regex To Match A Character At The Beginning And The End Of A String

A regular expression matches a character that appears at the beginning and the end of a string.

Can be useful in removing an unexpected character (” in this example) from the beginning and the end of a string.

/^\"|\"$/g

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Matches:

• “regexpattern“
• “regex”pattern“
• regex”pattern“
• “regex”pattern

See Also:

• Regex To Match A String With No Whitespace At The Beginning And End
• Regex To Match Characters Between Two Strings