Question

Is there a way to get the string between.. lets say quote ”
The problem with using Indexof and substring is that it gets the first ” and last ” but not the pair. Like

“Hello” “WHY ARE” “WWWWWEEEEEE”

It will get

Hello” “WHY ARE” “WWWWWEEEEEE

I want it to get to array > Hello, WHY ARE, WWWWEEEEEE

Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

Something like this?

StringCollection resultList = new StringCollection();
try 
{
    Regex regexObj = new Regex("\"([^\"]+)\"");
    Match matchResult = regexObj.Match(subjectString);

    while (matchResult.Success) 
    {
        resultList.Add(matchResult.Groups[1].Value);
        matchResult = matchResult.NextMatch();
    } 
}
catch (ArgumentException ex) 
{
    // Syntax error in the regular expression
}

If subjectString was “Hello” “WHY ARE” “WWWWWEEEEEE”, that should give you a list containing:

• Hello
• WHY ARE
• WWWWWEEEEEE

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A more compact example which uses the static Regex class instead, and just writes the matches to console instead of adding to a collection:

var subject = "\"Hello\" \"WHY ARE\" \"WWWWWEEEEEE\"";
var match = Regex.Match(subject, "\"([^\"]+)\"");

while (match.Success)
{
    Console.WriteLine(match.Groups[1].Value);
    match = match.NextMatch();
}