Regular Expressions help 2

[RobSchultz]

Please excuse me for posting a pseudo-VB related question here but I sure could use some help from the original grep artists...

I'm trying to code a Visual Basic app that will read in a line of an ini file and pull out parameters.

The .ini would look similar to this:

[parameters]
T1 = [[parameter 1]][[parameter 2]][[parameter 3]]

The regular expression needs to be able to create a match collection that matches the groups of [[...]] into separate items.

The best I've been able to do (which isn't much) is with the pattern "\[\[(.*)\]\]". This returns a single match of the entire line (yes, Global is on).

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide, Rob
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[CaKiwi]

I haven't tried this but it should find the first field. I assume the () pair saves the field in some vb variable.

\[\[([^\]]*)\]\]

Hope this helps. CaKiwi

 

[MaheshRathi]

Hi,

this also works fine ..

\[\[[^\]*\]\]

regards,
Mahesh

 

[RobSchultz]

Thank you both for responding. I cross-posted this in one of the VB forums and received an answer that was very similar to your posts. As such, I believe you all warrant a helpful-post star.

I have once again been educated I by fellow tek-tips members.

Thanks,
Rob Rob
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