Matching within escapable delimiters is not too hard. For instance this will match C-style escaped strings: "(\.|[^"])*" You just won't be able to nest th

Matching within escapable delimiters is not too hard. For instance this will match C-style escaped strings: "(\.|[^"])*" You just won't be able to nest them. You're either in a string or you aren't. You're never in a string inside another string.