Question

I have tried this…

Dim myMatches As String() =  System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Split(postRow.Item('Post'), '\b\#\b') 

But it is splitting all words, I want an array of words that start with#

Thanks!

Answer 1

This seems to work…

c#

Regex MyRegex = new Regex('\\#\\w+'); MatchCollection ms = MyRegex.Matches(InputText); 

or vb.net

Dim MyRegex as Regex = new Regex('\#\w+') Dim ms as MatchCollection = MyRegex.Matches(InputText) 

Given input text of…

‘asdfas asdf #asdf asd fas df asd fas #df asd f asdf’

…this will yield….

‘#asdf’ and ‘#df’

I’ll grant you that this does not get you a string Array but the MatchCollection is enumerable and so might be good enough.

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Additionally, I’ll add that I got this through the use of Expresso. which appears to be free. It was very helpful in producing the c# which I am very poor at. (Ie it did the escaping for me.) (If anyone thinks I should remove this pseudo-advert then please comment, but I thought it might be helpful 🙂 Good times )