Question

I’ve been trying to do this for quite some time but for some reason never got it right.

There will be texts like these:

• 12325 NHGKF
• 34523 KGJ
• 29302 MMKSEIE
• 49504EFDF

The rule is there will be EXACTLY 5 digit number (no more or less) after that a 1 SPACE (or no space at all) and some text after as shown above. I would like to have a MATCH using a regex pattern and extract THE NUMBER and SPACE and THE TEXT.

Is this possible? Thank you very much!

Answer 1

Since from your wording you seem to need to be able to get each component part of the input text on a successful match, then here’s one that’ll give you named groups number, space and text so you can get them easily if the regex matches:

(?<number>\d{5})(?<space>\s?)(?<text>\w+)

On the returned Match, if Success==true then you can do:

string number = match.Groups["number"].Value;
string text = match.Groups["text"].Value;
bool hadSpace = match.Groups["space"] != null;