JavaScript text between double quotes

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Try:

<script>
let str1 = 'Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum';
let str2 = 'Neque "porro quisquam est" qui dolorem ipsum';
let str3 = 'Neque "porro';
let str4 = 'Neque "porro" quisquam "est" qui dolorem ipsum';

function extractFirstText(str){
  const matches = str.match(/"(.*?)"/);
  return console.log(matches
    ? matches[1]
    : str);
}


function extractAllText(str){
  const re = /"(.*?)"/g;
  const result = [];
  let current;
  while (current = re.exec(str)) {
    result.push(current.pop());
  }
  return console.log(result.length > 0
    ? result
    : [str]);
}

// Execution of the functions

extractFirstText(str1);
//Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum

extractFirstText(str2);
//porro quisquam est

extractFirstText(str3);
//Neque "porro

extractFirstText(str4);
//porro

extractAllText(str1);
//Array [ "Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum" ]

extractAllText(str2);
//Array [ "porro quisquam est" ]

extractAllText(str3);
//Array [ "Neque \"porro" ]

extractAllText(str4);
//Array [ "porro", "est" ]
</script>

EDIT reworked to take into account both @AshishMaity comment in a discarded edit about matching more than one substring, and @JosephCho comment about the original breaking in case there is a single quote (str3 in the case above)

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