Help with making function process two terms simutaniously

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Im basically trying to recreate the roblox studio script editor in roblox, and to be frank. the string formatting has been giving me hell, ive managed to get it to work with ’ OR " however I wish for them both to work simultaneously similar to how roblox processes it.

Function

function module.StringHighlighting(String, Term, Extra)
	local StringPosition = string.find(String, Term)
	if StringPosition then
		local Remainder = string.sub(String, StringPosition, #String)
		String = string.sub(String, 1, StringPosition-1)
	

		local EndStringPosition = string.find(string.sub(Remainder,2,#Remainder), Term)
		if EndStringPosition then
			table.insert(StringParts, TableCount + Extra, '<font color= "rgb('.. PlayerPreferences.ScriptEditorAsthetics['BuiltInStringColor'] ..' )">'.. string.sub(Remainder, 1, EndStringPosition+1).. "</font>")
			local LastPortion = string.sub(Remainder, EndStringPosition+2, #Remainder)
			TableCount = TableCount + 1
			
			local CurrentTableCount = TableCount + Extra
			
			LastPortion = module.StringHighlighting(LastPortion, Term, Extra + 1)
			
			
			LastPortion = module.StandardSyntaxFormatting(LastPortion)
			table.insert(StringParts, CurrentTableCount, LastPortion) 
			TableCount = TableCount + 1
		else
			table.insert(StringParts, TableCount + Extra,'<font color= "rgb('.. PlayerPreferences.ScriptEditorAsthetics['BuiltInStringColor'] ..' )">'.. Remainder.. "</font>")
			TableCount = TableCount + 1
		end
	end
	
	return String
end

Inputs:

String = module.StringHighlighting(String, "'", 0)

Where string is just any string of text

Ive tried numerous solutions however they all result in really weird disfiguration of the text and are inefficient, any help would be appreciated.

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