Question

A have a string that matches the format [abc][def][ghi][jkl]. I am using the following expression to parse the string

expression = @"\[([\s\S]*?)\]";

In this case, I can see that the groups created are

1: abc
1: def
1: ghi
1: jkl

The issue is that when I loop through the MatchCollection and check the match.Value it gives me the entire item which includes the braces (i.e. collection[0].Value = [abc]).
How do I return only what is shown above in the created groups?

Thanks

Answer 1

What you want is the Groups attribute.

collection[0].Groups[1], collection[1].Groups[1], etc, is the portion of the string which matched group 1.