Match groups and subgroups in a string
i have a dynamic string, for example "([1] * [5]) / 100"
what I want to do is find all the matches of strings hed within the square brackets. for each instance i want to tun some logic and do a replace. e.g. in the above example [1] i would be replacing with [Joe Bloggs] after doing a lookup on the id.
is possible with regex matches somehow?
(Moderator: Thread moved to the Regular Expression Forum and Title tweaked for quicker thread understanding during a search)
Hi,
if you used curly brackets, you could use the string.Format method:
string text = "({0} * {1}) / 100";
string result = string.Format(text, "Joe Bloggs", "Mary Bloggs");Would that work for you?
If not, here's the regex expression:
MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches(text, "(?<=\\[)\\d(?=\\])");Andrej
thanks a lot. is it also possible using Regex to provide a match collection where each match is split into 2 groups?
example string: "[Category1\Subject4] * [Category2\Subject7] / 100"
where i want to loop through each items in the square backets but have them also split by the "\" character.
i.e. match1.group1 = "Category1"
match2.group2 = "Subject4"
match2.group1 = "Category2"
match2.group2 = "Subject7"
thanks
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