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RegEx c# help

I wrote this regex

<font>.*\((?<Inside>.*?)\)</font>

"<font(Hi there)</font></font><font(Hi there)</font><font(Hi
there)</font><font(Hi there)</font><font(Hi there)</font>"

However it only returns the whole thing
<font(Hi there)</font></font><font(Hi there)</font><font(Hi
there)</font><font(Hi there)</font><font(Hi there)</fontas a
Single match

Any ideas on how I can do a non-greedy match ? Thanks!

Nate

Oct 19 '07 #1
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On Oct 19, 9:02 am, natebrun...@gmail.com wrote:
I wrote this regex

<font>.*\((?<Inside>.*?)\)</font>

"<font(Hi there)</font></font><font(Hi there)</font><font(Hi
there)</font><font(Hi there)</font><font(Hi there)</font>"

However it only returns the whole thing
<font(Hi there)</font></font><font(Hi there)</font><font(Hi
there)</font><font(Hi there)</font><font(Hi there)</fontas a
Single match

Any ideas on how I can do a non-greedy match ? Thanks!

Nate
Say I was looking for the shortest "quoted string".

99% of the time I write something like this to find the smallest
match:

Regex regex = new Regex("\"([^\"]*)\"");

This will find a quote, and pull until it sees another quote, then the
quote. This can be extended to something more like you are looking
for.

Regex regex = new Regex(".*\((?<Inside>[^\)]?)\)");

You see, it will look until it finds a ). You just need to make sure
that you don't have any ) inside.

Oct 19 '07 #2
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:02:51 -0000, na*********@gmail.com wrote:
>I wrote this regex

<font>.*\((?<Inside>.*?)\)</font>

"<font(Hi there)</font></font><font(Hi there)</font><font(Hi
there)</font><font(Hi there)</font><font(Hi there)</font>"

However it only returns the whole thing
<font(Hi there)</font></font><font(Hi there)</font><font(Hi
there)</font><font(Hi there)</font><font(Hi there)</fontas a
Single match

Any ideas on how I can do a non-greedy match ? Thanks!

Nate
I'm assuming you want to extract the text (Hi There) from the font
tags. In which case try this regex:

<font>(?<Inside>.*?)</font>

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Oct 19 '07 #3

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