What’s the regex to match anything except a double quote not preceded by a backslash?

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No lookbehind necessary:

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

So: match quotes, and inside them: every character except a quote ([^"]) or an escaped quote (\\"), arbitrarily many times (*).

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