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I'm an admitted regex moron, but I need help w/ an expression for parsing.

Here is the input string:

(123.45)ABC(44. 55)

with a regex expression of

\(|\)

Regex.Split outputs the following:

""
"123.45"
"ABC"
"44.55"
""

This is fine, however I don't want (need) the leading and trailing "" -- what
do I need to add to the regex expression to get just:

"123.45"
"ABC"
"44.55"
Thanks
Nov 16 '05 #1
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I'm not sure this is the absolute answer, but I believe this is the
expected output when using Regex.Split (as opposed to using Regex
matching mechanisms). Just iterate over the results and check for
equivalence to string.Empty.

-mdb

Julie <ju***@nospam.c om> wrote in news:40******** *******@nospam. com:
I'm an admitted regex moron, but I need help w/ an expression for
parsing.

Here is the input string:

(123.45)ABC(44. 55)

with a regex expression of

\(|\)

Regex.Split outputs the following:

""
"123.45"
"ABC"
"44.55"
""

This is fine, however I don't want (need) the leading and trailing ""
-- what do I need to add to the regex expression to get just:

"123.45"
"ABC"
"44.55"
Thanks


Nov 16 '05 #2
....or you might exclude the leading and trailing brace from the input to
split...
Nov 16 '05 #3

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