regular expression to extract elements from url

[jarod1701]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to create a regular expression that can extract
certain elements from a url.

The url will be of the following form:
http://user:pa**@www.sitename.com

I want a regex that matches the "user" part of that url.

My first approach was ([:][/][/]([a-z]*)[:]) but that only return
"://user:".

I would have to use .NET's substring method to extract the "user" but I
don't want to do that.
I've been searching through the web for quite a while now
Isn't there a way to get the substring from "://user:" using something
like a subpattern ?

Is it possible after all ?

Thanks in advance

[William Stacey [MVP]]

Does the Uri or UriBuilder classes not work for your needs?

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William Stacey [MVP]

<ja*******@gmx.de> wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm currently trying to create a regular expression that can extract
certain elements from a url.

The url will be of the following form:
http://user:pa**@www.sitename.com

I want a regex that matches the "user" part of that url.

My first approach was ([:][/][/]([a-z]*)[:]) but that only return
"://user:".

I would have to use .NET's substring method to extract the "user" but I
don't want to do that.
I've been searching through the web for quite a while now
Isn't there a way to get the substring from "://user:" using something
like a subpattern ?

Is it possible after all ?

Thanks in advance

[Jianwei Sun]

What do you exactly want to extract? You can extract the elements to
some group.

Try the following.

(http://)(?<User>.*):(?<Password>.*)@.*

it will extract the user into the <User> group, and pass into <Password>
group.

HTH.

Jianwei

ja*******@gmx.de wrote:

Hi,

I'm currently trying to create a regular expression that can extract
certain elements from a url.

The url will be of the following form:
http://user:pa**@www.sitename.com

I want a regex that matches the "user" part of that url.

My first approach was ([:][/][/]([a-z]*)[:]) but that only return
"://user:".

I would have to use .NET's substring method to extract the "user" but I
don't want to do that.
I've been searching through the web for quite a while now
Isn't there a way to get the substring from "://user:" using something
like a subpattern ?

Is it possible after all ?

Thanks in advance

[jarod1701]

thanks to both of you :-)