Question

I have a string like this:

|T1| This is some text for the first tag |T2| this is some text for the second tag

I need to parse out the tags and the text that is associated with each one. The tags are not known ahead of time but they are delimited by \|\w+\|.

I know there is something I can do here as far as capturing groups and so on but after messing around in powershell the best I can come up with is to first isolate each pairing using \|\w+\|.*with the ExplicitCapture option and then parse out the tag and text from there.

But that is doing double the work and totally not super-cool haxor. What’s the regex-pro way to do this?

Edit: Actually I realize that it’s late and I misread my results. The above doesn’t actually work so now I don’t even have a bad solution.

Answer 1

\|(?<tag>\w+)\|(?<text>[^|]*)

Matches |T1| This is some text for the first tag |T2| this is some text for the second tag

into

 |T1| This is some text for the first tag 
 |T2| this is some text for the second tag

EDIT:
Use Regex Groups to get parts of match;

var tagName = match.Groups["tag"].Value;
var text = match.Groups["text"].Value;

Swithed to named groups instead of numbered