A regex help to filter text in brackets

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I'm not good at regular expressions. I try to filter texts in bracket,

string temp="[Apple][Orange]Eating";

I need a array fill of Apple and Orange, how can i do that?

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Posted 25-Sep-11 5:05am

emrea

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André Kraak · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-25T05:16:00

Solution 1

You can use the Regex.Split Method[^].

Use these links to find out how regular expressions work:
.NET Framework Regular Expressions[^]
Regular Expression Language Elements[^]

Posted 25-Sep-11 5:16am

André Kraak

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Simon Bang Terkildsen 25-Sep-11 11:20am

My 5, I wasn't aware Regex had a split method

André Kraak 25-Sep-11 11:47am

Me neither, where would we be without Google?

Thanks.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Sep-11 15:31pm

Good, my 5. I also did not pay attention there was Regex.Split. Great to know, thank you for sharing.
--SA

Simon Bang Terkildsen 25-Sep-11 15:45pm

Yeah or just paying attension to the docs or intellisense :)

Simon Bang Terkildsen · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-25T05:18:00

Solution 2

C#

string inputString = "[Apple][Orange]Eating";

MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches(inputString, @"\[(?<content>.+?)\]");

string[] theArray = matches.Cast<Match>()
                           .Select(m => m.Groups["content"].Value).ToArray();

You can use Regex.Split instead of Regex.Matches like André says.

Posted 25-Sep-11 5:18am

Simon Bang Terkildsen

Updated 25-Sep-11 5:20am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Sep-11 15:30pm

Good, my 5.
--SA

Simon Bang Terkildsen 25-Sep-11 15:50pm

Thank you, SA

emrea 26-Sep-11 17:31pm

You saved my day TY:)