Deleting text between quotes 2

[screwloose]

I couldn't find in my sed one-liners, but how do you delete text between quotes, for example:

this is "a test" of sed.

I want this to be left as:

this is "" of sed.

Thanks!!

 

[vgersh99]

assuming no 'embedded" quotes:

echo '"a test" ' | sed -e 's/"\([^"]*\)"/\1/g'

vlad
+----------------------------+
| #include<disclaimer.h> |
+----------------------------+

 

[vgersh99]

sorry - misread what you wanted:

echo '1"a test"2' | sed -e 's/\("\)[^"]*\("\)/\1\2/g'

vlad
+----------------------------+
| #include<disclaimer.h> |
+----------------------------+

 

[screwloose]

Thank you.

 

[PHV]

No need to backward reference:
sed -e 's!"[^"]*"!""!g'

Hope This Help, PH.
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