Regex for finding an unterminated string

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Published on 2010-05-25T15:55:35Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 16:01 UTC
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I need to search for lines in a CSV file that end in an unterminated, double-quoted string.

For example:

1,2,a,b,"dog","rabbit

would match whereas

1,2,a,b,"dog","rabbit","cat bird"
1,2,a,b,"dog",rabbit

would not.

I have very limited experience with regular expressions, and the only thing I could think of is something like

"[^"]*$

However, that matches the last quote to the end of the line.

How would this be done?

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