Regular Expressions

[dj4uk]

I'm having trouble working out a regular expression to do the following.

I have a string that can contain text in the following formats:
/
/imex
/imex/design
/imex/design/layouts
/other
/other/test
/other/test/something
/other/test/something/etc
(There is no limit to the number of subdirectories.)

I need to get the text between the second and third forward slashes OR the text between the second forward slash and the end of the string if a there isn't a third forward slash OR if there isn't a second forward slash return String.Empty.

So the example above would give:
String.Empty
String.Empty
design
design
String.Empty
test
test
test

Note the regular expression should be case insensitive.

Any help would be appreciated - I'm new to C# so take it slow!

DJ

[Tewl]

Well heres a pattern I'm not great at regex an I am at work so I am not sure if it works or not. Group 2 would return the second subdir or an empty string if there was nothing there.

 /.*?(/(.*?)/?)?((/(.*?))+)?

You could also try using the Split function in the regex class

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...plittopic1.asp

or the more basic approach using the IndexOf property of the string class

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...exoftopic2.asp