I have this test string '{"hello": "my-friend", "hello2": "my friend", "field": True, "nxt":"hello:what", "nxt2": Mystr}' And I want to match, in this case, only Mystrand True. So I want to match values that arent quoted. My first approach: "?: )?(.*?)?[\,\}] regex101.com picture Then I came across this question and I tried to adopt to my scenario. Unfortunately failing on that one. "[^"\\]*(?:\\.[^"\\]*)*"(*SKIP)(*F)|(?<!\S)([^"\s]+)(?!\S) regex101.com picture I would also like to understand whats going on. My approach is clear for me. The one I copy pasted not really so far. Later I will use the regex in a python script using re. Continue reading...
