C# Regex to find uppercase word

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Hi everybody, I got a problem with regex, hope someone can help me.

I have a list of strings and each string contains uppercase word of 17 letters, I need to get this word from string.
Something like this:

C#

string pattern = @"[A-Z0-9]{17}";
Regex regex = new Regex(pattern);
List<string> result = new List<string>();
foreach (string val in list)
{
    Match match = regex.Match(pattern);
    result.Add(match.Value);
}

Posted 22-Dec-11 9:27am

pavel.bidenko

Updated 22-Dec-11 12:43pm

Wonde Tadesse

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pavel.bidenko 22-Dec-11 15:45pm

Still can't get it to work, it's not laziness, just still can't learn regex((

Monjurul Habib 22-Dec-11 16:03pm

what is your problem now ??

Monjurul Habib 22-Dec-11 16:13pm

review my updated answer.

pavel.bidenko 22-Dec-11 16:26pm

It's just too late for my brain, the regex for this is just simple '[A-Z0-9]{17}', but I got a mistake in a code snippet 'Match match = regex.Match(pattern);' Weird to compare pattern with pattern, isn't it?)

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Solution 1

Try following:
C# Regex.Split Method Examples

[Updated]
If you are looking for more advanced Regular Expression, follow the below links:
Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet
Learn Regular Expression (Regex) syntax with C# and .NET

Posted 22-Dec-11 9:34am

Monjurul Habib

Updated 22-Dec-11 10:12am

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Drazen Pupovac · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-22T10:36:00

I tried and its works:

C#

   List<string> list = new List<string>();
   list.Add("ASD");
   list.Add("ASFsdsd");
   list.Add("adsASFsdsd");

   string pattern = @"[A-Z]{3}";
   Regex regex = new Regex(pattern);
   List<string> result = new List<string>();

   foreach (string val in list)
   {
       Match match = regex.Match(val);
       result.Add(match.Value);
   }

/*Result will be list with elements:
  ASD
  ASF
  ASF
*/

If you replace 3 with 17 it must work for you.