Question

I am trying to separate the following string into a separate lines with regular expression

[property1=text1][property2=text2] 

and the desired result should be

property1=text1
property2=text2

here is my code

string[] attrs = Regex.Split(attr_str, @"\[(.+)\]");

Results is incorrect, am probably doing something wrong

UPDATE: after applying the suggested answers. Now it shows spaces and empty string

Answer 1

.+ is a greedy match, so it grabs as much as possible.

Use either

\[([^]]+)\]

or

\[(.+?)\]

In the first case, matching ] is not allowed, so “as much as possible” becomes shorter. The second uses a non-greedy match.