Question

I have strings that look like this

{/CSDC} CHOC SHELL DIP COLOR {17}

I need to extract the value in the first swirly brackets. In the above example it would be

/CSDC

So far i have this code which is not working

Dim matchCode = Regex.Matches(txtItems.Text, "/\{(.+?)\}/")
Dim itemCode As String
If matchCode.Count > 0 Then
   itemCode = matchCode(0).Value
End If

Answer 1

I think the main issue here is that you are confusing your regular expression syntax between different languages.

In languages like Javascript, Perl, Ruby and others, you create a regular expression object by using the /regex/ notation.

In .NET, when you instantiate a Regex object, you pass it a string of the regular expression, which is delimited by quotes, not slashes. So it is of the form "regex".

So try removing the leading and trailing / from your string and see how you go.

This may not be the whole problem, but it is at least part of it.