Regular Expressions Help

[Guest 20221009]

Hi all,

Need help with Regex in C#, this a bit foreign to me. Need to retrieve First names from a table row with lost of junk in it and I cant seem to get my regex to match.

First Name : rba
c : sd
Company Name : asdfasdf
Email : h@a.com
Cellphone : 2323
Work phone : 2323

Using Rad Regex Designer, I came up with "First Name : (.*)\r\s". It validates, but when I use it in a console app nothing happens..

Please help

 

[dequadin]

Whenever I hear regular expressions it makes me think of this

Sorry that's all I have to offer...

 

[Guest 20221009]

lol ...its hopeless. I need to get this done before 13:00 and our main dev is on leave today..ARRRG!

 

[FarligOpptreden]

Hi all,

Need help with Regex in C#, this a bit foreign to me. Need to retrieve First names from a table row with lost of junk in it and I cant seem to get my regex to match.



Using Rad Regex Designer, I came up with "First Name : (.*)\r\s". It validates, but when I use it in a console app nothing happens..

Please help

What's the code you use in the console app to match the expression?

 

[Guest 20221009]

What's the code you use in the console app to match the expression?

Regex r;
Match m;

string st = "First Name : reba" ;

r = new Regex(@"First Name : (.*)\r\s",
RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);




for (m = r.Match(st); m.Success; m = m.NextMatch())
{
Console.WriteLine("Found href " + m.Groups[0] + " at "
+ m.Groups[0].Index);
}

I just dont get it.. all the examples I have seen dont make any sense.

 

[FarligOpptreden]

I just dont get it.. all the examples I have seen dont make any sense.

The problem is that you test string does not contain any whitespace or carriage returns after the name string. Your regular expression expects a string in the following format:

First[SPACE]Name[SPACE]:[SPACE][ANY STRING VALUE][CARRIAGE RETURN][WHITE SPACE]

Try modifying it to:

First Name : (.*)\r*\s*

That will allow it to match the first name with or without a carriage return and whitespace after it...

 

[Guest 20221009]

The problem is that you test string does not contain any whitespace or carriage returns after the name string. Your regular expression expects a string in the following format:

First[SPACE]Name[SPACE]:[SPACE][ANY STRING VALUE][CARRIAGE RETURN][WHITE SPACE]

Try modifying it to:

First Name : (.*)\r*\s*

That will allow it to match the first name with or without a carriage return and whitespace after it...

Many thanks..it worked. Phew!

 

[FarligOpptreden]

Glad I could help.

 

[guest2013-1]

Glad I could help.

You forgot to ask him money...

 

[FarligOpptreden]

You forgot to ask him money...

Well, according to an hourly rate of R350 for the help, I would've gotten, oh, about R11.67. The banking fees involved in such a transaction won't make it worthwhile.

 

[Guest 20221009]

You forgot to ask him money...

 

[FarligOpptreden]

Ok, well, where's my money?