What is GREP for words with apostrophe within single quotation marks?

[oksananka]

Hello dear InDesign community.

Help me please to edit my GREP code to make text italic within single quotation marks with words that contains apostrophe. I have a problem that it stops working on the first apostrophe in a sentence. GREP sees it as the right quotation mark.
My GREP now is: ~[(.*?)~]

Thanks a lot.

Oksana

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[Erica Gamet]

Maybe try a negative lookahead and see when it is NOT followed by a lower case character? Because a closing single quote would be followed by a space, whereas an apostrophe would be followed by a lower case character (I would think).

[Erica Gamet · Accepted solution]

I did

~[(.+?)~](?!\l)

and replaced with $1 (assuming you want to remove the quotes, of course...and maybe italicize them.

[oksananka]

Dear Erica, thanks a lot.

It works perfectly.

[Erica Gamet]

Excellent!

[Erica Gamet]