[thelist] simple .NET regex problem

Anthony Baratta anthony at baratta.com
Wed Jun 27 11:58:06 CDT 2007


Here ya go....

text%3D'(.[^']*)'

This will return:

    [0]  text%3D'run-on sentence'

    [1] run-on sentence

Hope that helps.

-----Original message-----
From: Scott Dexter dexilalolai at yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:18:58 -0700
To: evolt thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] simple .NET regex problem

> Hi kids (been a while, no?)
> 
> I'm trying to do some simple regexing, and I'm stumped. A sample string:
> 
> [KEYWORD text%3D'run-on sentence' word%3D'run-on sentence' definition%3D'two or more sentences that are written together and are separated by a comma or no mark of punctuation at all']
> 
> I'm trying to get the quoted text after the "text%3D", and for some reason, I can't get it to work. I would guess something like \[KEYWORD text%3D'(.*)' would do the trick, but it appears the word 'text' is causing problems? Halp?
> 
> sgd
> 
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