Hi I have a sentence as follows.
I should retrieve the substring whic is outside the circular brackets.
Can someone help please?
Exampl 1: (Roses) are (Red Milk is) white
should return-> are and white seperately in an array.
arr[0] = are
arr[1] = white
Example 2:roses) are red milk (is white)
result
arr[0] = are red milk
Assign Activity
strPattern = (?<=\)).*?(?=\(|$)
Assign Activity
arrValues | String Array =
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegEx.Matches(YourStringVar, strPattern).Cast(Of Match).Select(Function (x) x.Value.Trim).toArray
First Value → arrValues(0)
Second Value → arrValues(1)
Thanks @ppr for the solution but for some cases its not working examples below.With outputs
(successful) football (club(s)) (managers)" ----> {“football”,“)”,“”}
“boat(s)” ----> empty array
“abcd (asdf) boat(s)” ----> {“boat”,“”}
better that you will write down all variations (input, output), so we can check for a new pattern
For regex is not recommended to start with half-defined requirements and then run it against another case. Regex is not about that a pattern can support every case. Also the strategy to setup an extraction over a regex extraction cascade / regex / string methods cascade can help as well
Hi @ppr Most of my combinations are these but there can be chances the sentence is more complex or bigger one with the brackets.
Are these combinations enough?
(successful) football (club(s)) (managers) volleyball Cricket (New(s))
(a) farmer(s)
(the) farmer(s)
(a) teacher(s)
(the) teacher(s)
(successful) football (club(s)) (managers)
(successful) soccer (club(s)) (managers)
(a) (new) magazine(s) (for teenagers)
(the) (new) magazine(s) (for teenagers)
(a) boat(s)
(the) boat(s)
Tuesday(s)
abcd (asdf) boat(s)
boat(s)
(successful) football (club(s)) (managers)
(successful) football clubs (managers)
Abcd (efgh) hgji asdf (xyz) qwerty ------> hgji asdf should be one out put instead of hdji and asdf being sepearetly in the array of string
can you just mark in bold / or list down what output is needed? Thanks
i just edited my question
Maybe a replacement strategy is better fitting
We replace the brackets with a # and then split / extract / trim the remaining parts
That will work but can i get the query for it please?
strText
"(successful) football (club(s)) (managers) volleyball Cricket (New(s))"
strPattern
"\(.+?\)?\)"
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(strText,strPattern,"#").Split({"#"}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
string[3] { " football ", " ", " volleyball Cricket " }
arrValues = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(strText,strPattern,"#").Split({"#"}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
string[3] { " football ", " ", " volleyball Cricket " }
arrValues = arrValues.Select(Function (x) x.Trim() ).Where(Function (x) Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(x)).toArray
string[2] { "football", "volleyball Cricket" }
Thank You this helped.
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