Re: Finding formatting items in a string

Hello Jack,

I even found a FAQ on this... I'm going to write a blogpost about this pattern at some poitn I guess. It has a lot of interesting regex things in it.

The FAQ:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa569608.aspx

And a further completed regex, including the fact that you can use { and } within the custom pattern if you want to... Just escape them again. Which makes the whole escaping { harder and harder to understand...

This is the expression I've got so far:
(?<!([^\{]|^){({{)*){(?<item>[0-9]+)(?<alignment>,[-+]?[0-9]+)?(?<format>:([^{}]|{{|}})+)?}(?!}({{)*([^}]|$))

note also that I removed the \ before most, if not all of the { and } in the expression. It seems that the .NET regex parser is quite content with this. Only if the {n(,(m)?)?} format is used, do you need to escape the { and the }. I found that by accident. Not that it makes the expression any easier to read... *sigh*...

--
Jesse Houwing
jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl


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