Question

Hello I have a question about matching groups based on the following regular expression

static string partPattern = @"^(?<Key>\w+)\s*(?<Value>.*)$";

Sample Data as following:

   TEST_REPLICATE
    {
        REPLICATE_ID            1986
        ASSAY_NUMBER            877
        ASSAY_VERSION           4
        ASSAY_STATUS            "Research"
            }

I am able to retrieve values correctly and if values are NULL, it works correctly as well. What I am trying to do is to also retrieve a value for instance the last one module which is in double quotes. I am not really sure if i am doing it correctly, would this be the correct regex for the above scenario, I just added quotes before w. Please correct, thanks

  static string partPattern = @"^(?<Key>\"w+)\s*(?<Value>.*)$";

Answer 1

Not sure where your problem is. This works for me:

\s*(?<Key>[^\s]+)\s*(?<Value>.*)