One of my aliases uses:
Dictionary - <string> | http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&search=$$1 /ICON=icons\dictionary.ico

When I invoke it by entering e.g. "dic"
The description right from the icon states:
dict (Dictionary - )

So:
<string> is resolved to nothing

How do I escape it properly that <string> isn't resolved at all and I get instead:
dict (Dictionary - <string>)

Hi,

Edit: Solved, I wrote a function that parses all pairs...

for example I have the following string:

$a = 'a:1:{s:9:"@test.bat";a:1:{s:24:"AJXP_METADATA_SHAREDUSER";a:1:{s:10:"users_meta";a:1:{s:4:"tags";s:20:"batch file {new tag}";}}}}';

Is there an intelligent way (the used regex engine (Visual Basic (no .NET) is "mostly" pcre compatible. One exception: Positive & negative lookbehinds aren't supported) to get the content of the innermost {} pair that is NOT inside quotation marks?

In this case I'd like to match exactly this part:

{s:4:"tags";s:20:"batch file {new tag}";}

The real innermost pair of {} would be:

{new tag}

but this is inside a double quoting

"batch file {new tag}"

and therefore shouldn't be treated as the innermost {}...