Question

I have the following regular expression with which I match a few lines.

Here is an example:

field1    xyz
field2    yiuyi
field3    12.34.12

This is my regex:

static string partPattern = @"^(?<Key>\w*)\s+(?<Value>\w*)$"; 

This is the code I use:

Match m = Regex.Match(line, partPattern);
if (m.Groups["Key"].Length > 0 && m.Groups["Value"].Length > 0)
{
    //add to Dictionary 
}

It works fine in all cases except when there is a date. I just wanted to make it so that it fetches the values regardless of blank, quotes, or anything else.

Answer 1

You are using word characters (\w), which include [a-zA-Z0-9_], but you probably want to match any character, at least for the Value.

^(?<Key>\w+)\s+(?<Value>.+)$