Text within single quotes

Hello Everybody,
I have a requirement wherein i need to take out text which exists within single quotes.
For eg:
string1 = Hi ' I am within single quotes' .
here i need to take the text which is inside single quotes aside.
Kindly provide me a solution.
Thanks and Regards
Manish

Use SPLIT.
TYPES: BEGIN OF ITAB_TYPE,
        WORD(20),
      END   OF ITAB_TYPE.
DATA: ITAB TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF ITAB_TYPE WITH
                NON-UNIQUE DEFAULT KEY INITIAL SIZE 5.
SPLIT 'Hi '' I am within single quotes''' AT '''' INTO TABLE ITAB.
So you will have the entire string in the second record of the table.
Note that working with single quotes in ABAP makes you use twice single quotes, in order to avoid ending the string.
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        Angel Garcia

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