MATLAB: Parsing everything between quotation using regular expression

MATLABregexpstring

I m working on a code that parse whatever occur between the quations as shown in my example below

raw="square format" tag_id=

I want parse only between the quotations (highlighted in bold) "whateverhere even space or dots" parse me

your help is highly appreciated

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I think you want:

 raw='"square format" tag_id='
 regexp(raw, '"(.*?)"', 'tokens')

That gives you a cell array of all text found within double quotes, and nothing else. KEN

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