Question

I need to parse out writeln("test"); from a string.
I was using (?<type>writeln)\((?<args>[^\)]*)\); as the regex, but this isn’t perfect, if you try and parse writeln("heloo :)"); or something similar, the regex won’t parse it (because of the ‘)’ in the quotes). Is there a way to register that since the ‘)’ is in the quote marks, the regex should ignore it, and look for the next ‘)’?

Thanks,
Max

Answer 1

The following will match patterns like writeln("hello :) \"world\"!");

string regex = "(?<type>writeln)\\(\"(?<args>(\\\\\"|[^\"])*)\"\\);";

I’m assuming this is only for single arguments.