Question

I need a regex pattern which will accommodate for the following.

I get a response from a UDP server, it’s a very long string and each word is separated by \, for example:

\g79g97\g879o\wot87gord\player_0\name0\g6868o\g78og89\g79g79\player_1\name1\gyuvui\yivyil\player_2\name2\g7g87\g67og9o\v78v9i7

I need the strings after \player_n\, so in the above example I would need name0, name1 and name3,

I know this is the second regex question of the day but I have the book (Mastering Regular Expressions) on order! Thank you.

UPDATE. elusive’s regex pattern will suffice, and I can add the match(0) to a textbox. However, what if I want to add all the matches to the text box ?

textBox1.Text += match.Captures[0].ToString(); //this works fine.

How do I add “all” match.captures to the text box? :s sorry for being so lame, this Regex class is brand new to me .

Answer 1

i think that this test sample can help you

string inp = @"\g79g97\g879o\wot87gord\player_0\name0\g6868o\g78og89\g79g79\player_1\name1\gyuvui\yivyil\player_2\name2\g7g87\g67og9o\v78v9i7";
string rex = @"[\w]*[\\]player_[0-9]+[\\](?<name>[A-Za-z0-9]*)\b";
Regex re = new Regex(rex);
Match mat = re.Match(inp);
 for (Match m = re.Match(inp); m.Success; m = m.NextMatch())
{
     Console.WriteLine(m.Groups["name"]);
}

you can take the name of the player from the m.Groups["name"]