Using Regex to get text between delimeters

[Danja91]

Hello,

I'm trying to parse a string and I'm having trouble getting arguments from it. The string may appear as follows:

"Banannas(1) garbage Apples(2) iheartcodeguru"

where each substring can appear in any order; it could just as well be "garbage iheartcodeguru Apples(2) Banannas(1)".

I'l like to get each argument one at a time. For example, for the Banannas argument, I wrote the following code:

string q = "Banannas(1) garbage Apples(2) iheartcodeguru";

Regex Pos = new Regex(@"Banannas(([A-Za-z0-9\-]+))");
            Match PosMatch = Pos.Match(q);
            string tempval = PosMatch.Groups[1].Value;
            Console.WriteLine(tempval);

I expect an output of "1", but tempval always ends up as "". What am I doing wrong?

[BioPhysEngr]

Since parenthesis delimit the parameters you are trying to extract, you'll need to escape them when you mean to match a parenthesis literally. Thus, change your regex to:

Regex Pos = new Regex(@"Banannas\(([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\)");

This worked for me when I ran your snippet.

Hope that helps!

[Danja91]

Sorry to bring this thread up back from the dead... I was unable to rep you so I just wanted to say thanks again for your help. That's twice in a row now that you've helped me out.