Regular expression for a string literal in flex/lex

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A string consists of a quote mark

"

followed by zero or more of either an escaped anything

\\.

or a non-quote character, non-backslash character

[^"\\]

and finally a terminating quote

"

Put it all together, and you’ve got

\"(\\.|[^"\\])*\"

The delimiting quotes are escaped because they are Flex meta-characters.

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