Question

I would like to extract all double quoted phrase inside an input phrase and keep non matching elements as words

let’s say i have “sales people” IT i want the output to be:

sales people

  IT

same thing for input=”SO \”sales manager\” marketing \”management\””

the output is:

SO
sales manager
marketing
management

if input =”SO \”sales manager\” marketing management\” insurance”

the output is:

SO
sales manager
marketing
management
insurance

I have found the regex :but i don’t know how to extract:

string InputText="SO \"sales manager\" marketing \"management\"" ;
string pattern0 = "^\"(.*?)\"$";
string pattern = "^(.*?)\"(.*?)\"(.*?)$";
Regex regex = new Regex(pattern);
string[] temOperands;
bool isMatch = regex.IsMatch(InputText);
if (isMatch)
{
    //here goes the extraction
}

Answer 1

I think you need something like "(?<word>[^"]+)"|(?<word>\w+). This will match both text in double quotes and single words:

var str = @"SO ""sales manager"" marketing hello ""management""";
var regex = new Regex(@"""(?<word>[^""]+)""|(?<word>\w+)");
var words = regex.Matches(str)
    .Cast<Match>()
    .Select(m => m.Groups["word"].Value)
    .ToArray();

For the test string this will return:

SO
sales manager
marketing
hello
management