MATLAB: Extract only text between quotes of a string

Question

Folks, could use an assist. New to REGEXP but persistent. Desire only the literal text between quotes for this string:

imt = "e";

[subchunk] = regexp(textline,'\".*?\"','match','ignorecase');

imt = subchunk;

When I return the argument from my readtext file function, and print using disp(imt), I get this:

'"e"'

When I only want:

e

I assume the single quotes are associated with the disp() function?

Answer 1

subchunk = regexp(textline, '(?<=")[^"]+(?=")', 'match');
imt = subchunk{1};

You could also consider just using a basic strfind() for '"', removing everything up to the first match and everything from the second match on.