Question

i am relatively new to NSRegularExpression and just can’t come up with a pattern to find a string within a string….
here is the string…

#@$294@001@[12345-678[123-456-7@15665@2

I want to extract the string..

@001@[12345-678[123-456-7@

for more info I know that there will be 3 digits(like 001) between two @ ‘s and 20 characters between the last two @ ‘s..

I have tried n number of combinations but nothing seem to work. any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

How about something like this:

@[0-9]{3}@.{20}@

If you know that the 20 characters will always consist of digits, [ and -, your pattern would become:

@[0-9]{3}@[0-9\[\-]{20}@

Be careful with the backslashes: When you use create the pattern with a string literal (@"..."), you need to add an extra backslash before each backslash.