[2008] Regular Expressions

[James-R]

Hi,

I'm really, really stuggling with this...

How can I find somethign betwee two strings? Here is an example

start data data data
more data on new line
extra data end

I want it to get everything between "start" and "end". I have tried basic things like: "start(.*)end" with multiple line and ignore case settings but I cant get it to work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[.paul.]

try this

Dim testStr As String = "start data data data" & Environment.NewLine & _
                                   "more data on new line" & Environment.NewLine & _
                                   "extra data end"
Dim rx As New Regex("(?<=start)(\n| |.)*(?=end)", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)
MsgBox(rx.Match(testStr).Value)

[The_Patzer]

I am going nuts with regex as well :P anyone care to help me parse "341" out of the string below please:

Score   341   0

[.paul.]

I am going nuts with regex as well :P anyone care to help me parse "341" out of the string below please:

Score   341   0

you should start a new thread really.

try this

Dim testStr As String = "Score   341   0"
Dim rx As New Regex("(?<=Score( )*)\d*(?=( )*0)", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)
MsgBox(rx.Match(testStr).Value)

it'd be easier without regex:

Dim testStr As String = "Score   341   0"
Dim strArray() As String = testStr.Split(New String() {" "}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
msgbox (strArray(1))