[RESOLVED] ReGex Woes...

[TCarter]

Hello everybody, I am trying to pull data from a PHP Array.

The information is as follows:

Array
(
    [status] => Expired
    [registeredname] => First Last
    [companyname] => My Company
    [email] => my@email.com
    [serviceid] => 1
    [productid] => 1
    [productname] => Yearly License
    [regdate] => 2012-10-29
    [nextduedate] => 2012-11-29
    [billingcycle] => Monthly
    [validdomain] => notimportant
    [validip] => 127.0.0.1
    [validdirectory] => /home/hidden/public_html/members
    [md5hash] => 3afc53edbdba2f2dd51499a88128302d
    [remotecheck] => 1
)
1 

The code I have attempted was as follows:

            Dim rgx As New Regex("\[registeredname\] => (.+) " & vbLf)
            Dim matchG As MatchCollection = rgx.Matches(src)
            Dim result As String = matchG(0).Groups(1).ToString()
            Return result 

However, nothing I do seems to work.

Am I missing something? I have tried vbNewLine, vbLf (what shows up in the expression editor), etc, etc, etc. Even using software such as RegEx Buddy, I have been unable to figure this out.


Thank you in advance.

[.paul.]

try this:

dim rgx As New Regex("\[registeredname\]\s\=\>\s(.+) ")

[.paul.]

or:

dim rgx As New Regex("\[registeredname\]\s\=\>\s((.|\s)+) ")

[Blupig]

If you don't want to use Regex at all, you could totally just split the array text into different lines then use substring to take out what you want. That's the easy way out, though.

[ThomasJohnsen]

When working with multiline strings, i prefer using the RegexOptions.Multiline option. It will change the meaning of ^ and $ from beginning respectively end of string to beginning respectively end of line, avoiding having to scan for newline characters and similar. In your case it's irrelevant, since you're only after one line, but if you had to parse the entire Array structure, it would be much simpler imo.

[TCarter]

Thanks everybody for the info.

BluPig, your idea is quite simple and im wondering why I didn't think of it. Thanks.

.paul. thanks for the code snippets. the 1st code snippet only displays the 1st name, but not the 2nd.
the second code snippet displays the full name and every line after. Even modifying it and including like "& vbLf(or Vbnewline) it still wouldn't break it up. But I appreciate it regardless.

[.paul.]

regex newline match = "\r\n"