Question

I’m struggling with a regex pattern that will pull out text from a string into named groups.

A (somewhat arbitrary) example will best explain what I’m trying to achieve.

string input =
    "Mary Anne has been to 949 bingo games. The last was on Tue 24/04/2012. She won with the Numbers: 4, 6, 11, 16, 19, 27, 45";

string pattern =
    @"(?<Person>\w+?) has been to (?<NumberOfGames>\d+?) bingo games. The last was on (?<Day>...?) (?<Date>...?). She won with the Numbers: (?<Numbers>...?)";

Regex regex = new Regex(pattern);
var match = regex.Match(input);

string person = match.Groups["Person"].Value;
string noOfGames = match.Groups["NumberOfGames"].Value;
string day = match.Groups["Day"].Value;
string date = match.Groups["Date"].Value;
string numbers = match.Groups["Numbers"].Value;

I can’t seem to get the regex pattern to work, but i think the above explains it well enough. Essentially i need to get the person name, the number of games etc.

Can anyone solve this and explain the actual regex pattern they worked out?

Answer 1

 string pattern = @"(?<Person>[\w ]+) has been to (?<NumberOfGames>\d+) bingo games\. The last was on (?<Day>\w+) (?<Date>\d\d/\d\d/\d{4})\. She won with the Numbers: (?<Numbers>.*?)$";

Other posts have mentioned how to pull out the groups, but this regex matches on your input.