Question

enter image description hereSample text:

Engineering | AB7407 | 007412665 | Jackie Browne | Drawing for
Construction

I need 2 RegEx. One can give me 2nd value after the first pipe AB7407
and second Redex can give me 3rd value after the 2nd pipe 007412665

I tried following but it gives me the sample text back:

^(?<field1>[^|]+),(?<field2>[^|]+),(?<field3>[^|]+),(?<field4>[^|]+),(?<field5>[^|]+)$

Result:

Engineering | AB7407 | 007412665 | Jackie Browne | Drawing for
Construction

Can anyone please suggest what is going on with my Regex.

Answer 1

Dim x = "Engineering | AB7407 | 007412665 | Jackie Browne | Drawing for Construction"
Dim parts = x.Split(" | ")

parts(1) now contains the second chunk of string, parts(2) contains the 3rd. This is VB, but the approach for c# or whatever you’re using is similar.

To fix your regex:

^(?<field1>[^|]+) \| (?<field2>[^|]+) \| (?<field3>[^|]+) \| (?<field4>[^|]+) \| (?<field5>[^|]+)$

If you must have 2 regexes,

(?<=^[^|]+ \| )[^|]+

matches the second chunk, and

(?<=^(?:[^|]+ \| ){2})[^|]+

matches the 3rd.