Regular Expressions

Public Function ListItems As List(Of Item)<br />
Dim Result As New List(Of Item)<br />
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Dim items As String = "asd=w2342 asd=12333"<br />
Dim parts() As String = Split(items, " ") 'First off i'm gonna split the items devided by spaces<br />
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For Each part As String In parts<br />
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Dim items() As String = Split(part, "=") 'Second i'm going to split the part into two seperate values<br />
Dim Value1 As String<br />
Dim Value2 As String<br />
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Value1 = items(0)<br />
Value2 = items(1)<br />
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Result.Add(New Item(Value1, Value2) 'Then you can assign these value to a class or something else you want to use this data in...<br />
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Next<br />
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Return Result<br />
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End Sub

Marco Bertschi wrote:

second key can contain an escaped \=

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

Are you sure - isn't it 'second value'?

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

What the separator between one key-value pair to the other?

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

But space also can be in the value part, but not in the key part - Am I right?

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

.NET only extension

^((\\b[^\\s=]+)=(([^=]|\\\\=)+))*$

^((?<key>\b[^\s=]+)=(?<value>([^=]|\\=)+))+$

(\w+(?=\=))|((?<!\\)(?<=\=)(.+?)((?=(\s\w+\=))|$))