simple regex question?

[Jerry]

I am reading lines from a file that I need to breakdown.

while( ( read = FI.ReadLine() ) != null )
{
Console.WriteLine( read );

if( read.Contains( "<var>" ) )
{
Regex r = new Regex( @"^\<(\w+)>(\w+),(\d+),(\d+),(\d+)" );
string[] s = r.Split( read );

}
}
FI.Close();

The above works fine for "<var>StmtBal,7,60,19</var>".

But not for "<var>Acct#,5,0,1</var>" or
"<var>.........Description..........,30,16,6</var>".

How do I handle the "#", "*" etc and ".."?

Thanks,

Jerry

[pigeonrandle]

Hi,
Could the "....description....." have a ',' in it? If so, you would
have to work backwards through the string? Other than that, you need to
know which extra symbols you will have.

HTH,
James.
Jerry wrote:

I am reading lines from a file that I need to breakdown.

while( ( read = FI.ReadLine() ) != null )
{
Console.WriteLine( read );

if( read.Contains( "<var>" ) )
{
Regex r = new Regex( @"^\<(\w+)>(\w+),(\d+),(\d+),(\d+)" );
string[] s = r.Split( read );

}
}
FI.Close();

The above works fine for "<var>StmtBal,7,60,19</var>".

But not for "<var>Acct#,5,0,1</var>" or
"<var>.........Description..........,30,16,6</var>".

How do I handle the "#", "*" etc and ".."?

Thanks,

Jerry

[Lee]

Probably replacing
(\w+),
with
([^,]+),
should work. It will match every non-, between the first and the
first ,.

--
// Lee Silver
// Information Concepts Inc.

I am reading lines from a file that I need to breakdown.

while( ( read = FI.ReadLine() ) != null )
{
Console.WriteLine( read );

if( read.Contains( "<var>" ) )
{
Regex r = new Regex( @"^\<(\w+)>(\w+),(\d+),(\d+),(\d+)" );
string[] s = r.Split( read );

}
}
FI.Close();

The above works fine for "<var>StmtBal,7,60,19</var>".

But not for "<var>Acct#,5,0,1</var>" or
"<var>.........Description..........,30,16,6</var>".

How do I handle the "#", "*" etc and ".."?

Thanks,

Jerry