Match words/phrases between delimiting characters

There are phrases in a line which are delimited by opening and closing quote, like the ones below. I am trying to find a regex that would match the word/phrase with the comma as internal delimiter (or the whole externally delimited content if there is no comma as in the case of a single word/phrase). For example for these phrases: ‘verdichten’ ‘verdichten, verstopfen’ ‘dunkel, finster, wolkig’ ‘fort sein, verloren sein, verloren’ ‘von den Nymph ergriffen, verzückt, verrückt’ ‘der sich halten kann, halten kann’ The result I would like would be: [[verdichten]] [[verdichten]], [[verstopfen]] [[dunkel]], [[finster]], [[wolkig]] [[fort sein]], [[verloren sein]], [[verloren]] [[von den Nymph ergriffen]], [[verzückt]], [[verrückt]] [[der sich halten kann]], [[halten kann]]

I don't know if this will help you: Find: (‘)(.+?)(’) Replace: \J "\1".replace(/‘/g,"[[") + "\2".replace(/, /g,"]],[[") + "\3".replace(/’/g,"]]")

Thanks! This is what I got as output (with regular expression on): J “‘”.replace(/‘/g,”[[“) + “verdichten″.replace(/, /g,”]],[[“) + “’″.replace(/’/g,”]]”) J “‘”.replace(/‘/g,”[[“) + “verdichten, verstopfen″.replace(/, /g,”]],[[“) + “’″.replace(/’/g,”]]”) J “‘”.replace(/‘/g,”[[“) + “dunkel, finster, wolkig″.replace(/, /g,”]],[[“) + “’″.replace(/’/g,”]]”) J “‘”.replace(/‘/g,”[[“) + “fort sein, verloren sein, verloren″.replace(/, /g,”]],[[“) + “’″.replace(/’/g,”]]”) J “‘”.replace(/‘/g,”[[“) + “von den Nymph ergriffen, verzückt, verrückt″.replace(/, /g,”]],[[“) + “’″.replace(/’/g,”]]”) J “‘”.replace(/‘/g,”[[“) + “der sich halten kann, halten kann″.replace(/, /g,”]],[[“) + “’″.replace(/’/g,”]]”)

This works for me (using version 19.1 which supports named groups): Find: ((?<=^)|(?<=, ))‘?(?<word_or_phrase>[^‘,’]+)’? Replace: [[\k<word_or_phrase>]] One of 2 possible positive lookbehinds, followed by your potential opening quote, then capture your word/phrase (which can't include quotes or comma), check for potential closing quote

I guess you missed the first \ character in "replace" .Please see my screenshot. It's \J ,instead of J.

Hi David, no I did not miss it... strange. The 1st solution mentioned here seemed to work even in older versions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58084119/match-strings-between-delimiting-characters Did not test Mr KT's solution as my version is older. Thank you very much both.