如何提取两个单词之间的句子并排除特殊字符

Question

I have the following sentence from a json string and i want to parse only the words for the "value" part of the string ie Service Copy

"customtext_230216":"self":"https://jsonapi.com/restsv/api/13/customtext/11233","value":"Service Copy","id":"11211"}

After several searches on SO i was able to get the regex expression

\b(?<=value)(.*?)(?=\s*id)

and the result is

":"Service Copy","

How can I enhance this so that the special characters are not captured expected result:

Service Copy

Answer 1

If you want to stick with regex:

(?<=value\":\")(.*?)(?=\s*\",\"id)

Basically took out the word boundary in the beginning and defined the special characters (quotes, colons, etc) outside of the capturing group.

However, there are better ways to extract values from JSON and I encourage you to look at those as this could potentially be a brittle solution.