Question

I am coding program, and stacked. Please can give me a code which search text in file from one specific symbol to another using C# visual Windows Forms , not console application. Like this text in textfile c:\id.txt

The entry was successfully copied to {ea4c4653-cc65-11e1-a2fc-001e101f4e71}.

search string from { to } , and result with { and }, without . at the end. And send found text in a message box.Code to search text in a file an send whole line in message box. But i need part of line.

Answer 1

Regex can be useful:

MessageBox.Show(
          Regex.Match(inputString, "\{(?<path>[^}]*)\}").Groups["path"].Value);

explain:

{        '{'

[^}]*    any character except: '}' 
         (0 or more times, matching the most amount possible)

}        '}'