(f)lex string with double quotes

Hi all,
could anyone help me to a lex regular expression that will pick-up a
string of the format:
"Any text and a double quote like this "" and this too"
This is what some silly language uses and I need to read it with my
(f)lex program. I just don't know how to go about it.
wkr,
Gerke
[There's a bunch of ways to do it. The simplest is something like this:


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


but since strings can be long, I'd rather use start states to go into
a string scanning state and then back out. -John]

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