Question

I’m trying to structure text using regular expressions – splitting and grouping all managers in the following example format:

General MANAGER
John Doe
[phone]
[e-mail]
Nursing MANAGER
John Doe
[phone]
[e-mail]
Financial MANAGER
John Doe
[phone]
Human Resource MANAGER
John Doe (Acting)
[phone]
[e-mail]
Marketing OFFICER
John Doe
[e-mail]
Pharmacy MANAGER
John Doe
[phone]
[e-mail]
Technical Services MANAGER
John Doe
[phone]
[e-mail]

I’ve tried

(?<FOUND>^.*?(manager|officer)+.*?)(manager|officer)+

expecting it to group items like this:

General Manager
John Doe
[phone]
[e-mail]

but it’s not quite working. Can any regexpert tell me how to fix it?

I’m using http://regexhero.net/tester/ for testing with options:
CultureInvariant, ExplicitCapture, IgnoreCase, Multiline, SingleLine

Answer 1

With RegexOptions.Multiline | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase

 ^(?<Title>.*(?:Manager|Officer)).*\n(?<Name>.*)(?:\n(?!.*(?:Manager|Officer))(?<Detail>.*))+$

See: http://regexhero.net/tester/?id=1ac1bd9f-be0a-4bea-ac01-cc32a6605ae7

Retrieve values using

Match.Groups["Name"].Value
Match.Groups["Title"].Value
Match.Groups["Detail"].Captures[1..n].Value