Easy way to find all string litterals in my C++ code?

[jonwil]

I have a large C++ project (over 3k files weighing in at just under 40MB) and need to find all the strings in there that need localization (so I can take them out and put them in the strings database). Is there a way (using Visual C++ 2017 or some extension for it or something) to find all the string literals in my code so I can then scan the list to figure out the ones that need to be localized. Google shows up a few regexes but those pick up all the #include lines and comments and other things that have a " character in there which makes finding the actual literals too hard.

Is there a way to make VS (or some other tool) do what I want and show me just the string literals?

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