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On Tuesday 12 June 2001  1:38pm, Tobias Reif wrote:
> Hi;
>
> how can I express the following in a regex:
> "all possible characters, including newlines and carriage returns,
> but no quotes"

Try:

([^"]|\n|\r)*

This will match 0 or more characters, including newlines and carriage 
returns right up until there is a quote. =)

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