Question

now I have got a long string like this

{"" ,"" ,"" ,"" } , {"" ,"" ,"" ,"" } 

there could be anything in between " " even Unicode characters. I used something like this

string pattern = "\"([\u0000-\uffff]+)+\""; 

but it just returns everything instead of return one by one.
I used Groups and Capture properties ,Capture Collection has info about everything matched but still I can’t extract what I need. I need to extract everything in between "" one by one. I don’t need to extract the { } " " , just contents in between each " ".

So in my case there should be 8 groups should be returned, how can I do this?

Answer 1

If pattern "," is a reliable delimiter (cannot appear as text) and there are no empty spaces between curly brackets and quotation marks, you can use this approach:

        string input = @"{""a"",""b"","" my name is ""vul"" and it's nice "",""""},{"""","""","""",""""}";

        input = input
                .Replace("{", String.Empty)
                .Replace("}", String.Empty);

        var strings = input.Split(new string[] {@""","""}, StringSplitOptions.None);

        strings[0] = strings[0].TrimStart('"');
        strings[strings.Length - 1] = strings[strings.Length - 1].TrimEnd('"');