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Interesting, i get matches with brackets. Why? //my matches: {name}, {[email protected]} –
Georg
Jun 13 '18 at 7:35
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@Georg Changed the answer accordingly. Included a group to display the value either with or without brackets. The difference to the other solutions is that Regex looks for matches, whereas the other answers are directly splitting the string. –
Fabian Bigler
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I never used regex before. I was abel to see similar questions in forum but not exactly what im looking for

I have a string like following. need to get the values between curly braces

Ex: "{name}{[email protected]}"

And i Need to get the following splitted strings.

name and [email protected]

I tried the following and it gives me back the same string.

string s = "{name}{[email protected]}";
string pattern = "({})";
string[] result = Regex.Split(s, pattern);
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This is quite a good tool for creating regex patterns/learning regex gskinner.com/RegExr –
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Use Matches of Regex rather than Split to accomplish this easily:

string input = "{name}{[email protected]}";
var regex = new Regex("{(.*?)}");
var matches = regex.Matches(input);
foreach (Match match in matches) //you can loop through your matches like this
{
var valueWithoutBrackets = match.Groups[1].Value; // name, [email protected]
var valueWithBrackets = match.Value; // {name}, {[email protected]}
}
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Interesting, i get matches with brackets. Why? //my matches: {name}, {[email protected]} –
Georg
Jun 13 '18 at 7:35
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@Georg Changed the answer accordingly. Included a group to display the value either with or without brackets. The difference to the other solutions is that Regex looks for matches, whereas the other answers are directly splitting the string. –
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Is using regex a must? In this particular example I would write:

s.Split(new char[] { '{', '}' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
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@FabianBigler I was under the impression that regex can easily achieve this, So i included Regex in the title :). I have changed the title now ;) –
Kurubaran
Jun 29 '13 at 12:59

Wouldn't the proposed solution also take as correct a string such as string s = "}name{[email protected]";? –
Josep
Aug 21 '14 at 15:17

I voted too fast… This solution does not provide an answer. Consider input string : {name}blabla{[email protected]}, you’ll have also “blabla” in the array… –
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here you go

string s = "{name}{[email protected]}";
s = s.Substring(1, s.Length - 2);// remove first and last characters
string pattern = "}{";// split pattern "}{"
string[] result = Regex.Split(s, pattern);
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string s = "{name}{[email protected]}";
s = s.TrimStart('{');
s = s.TrimEnd('}');
string pattern = "}{";
string[] result = Regex.Split(s, pattern);
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It works, but is there any way to get this result only using Regex pattern without using Substring ? –
Kurubaran
Jun 29 '13 at 11:05

im wondering if there is any was to to get the rsult only with regex pattern without doing any other string manipulation ? –
Kurubaran
Jun 29 '13 at 11:14

@Coder yes, take a look at my answer. ;) –
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I never used regex before. I was abel to see similar questions in forum but not exactly what im looking for

It works, but is there any way to get this result only using Regex pattern without using Substring ? –
Kurubaran
Jun 29 '13 at 11:05

im wondering if there is any was to to get the rsult only with regex pattern without doing any other string manipulation ? –
Kurubaran
Jun 29 '13 at 11:14

@Coder yes, take a look at my answer. ;) –
Fabian Bigler
Jun 29 '13 at 11:34

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During the 18th Century, 12 Sikh-led sovereign states emerged in the Punjab region and they were known as Misls. They were one of the reasons for weakening of the Mughals during this era. Although there used to be disputes and territorial conflicts between them, but they presented a united front in case of any outside aggression.
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I have a string like following. need to get the values between curly braces

Ex: "{name}{[email protected]}"

And i Need to get the following splitted strings.

name and [email protected]

I tried the following and it gives me back the same string.

string s = "{name}{[email protected]}";
string pattern = "({})";
string[] result = Regex.Split(s, pattern);