Need help with changing variable regex

[GauravB1]

I'm trying to parse a message that is either empty or has a value. The message is \"phones\": \"\" and it changes when there's a value between the quotes for instance \"phones\": \"xxxx\"


\\"phones\\": \\"([^\\]+)\\" --> this doesn't parse after the second quotation.

\\"phones\\": \\"?([^\\]+)\\" --> this parses but includes the second quotation in the value column. 

I need it to stay empty if there's no value and if there's a value I need to pick the value without the quotation marks.
Would appreciate any assistance.

[mrksr]

you can probably use "conditional mappings" to solve this.

Look for "conditional mappings" in "FlexConnector Developer's Guide".

With conditional mappings you can do something like

'if token = "\" map empty value to field'