Regular Expression for a JSON-type String

Question

I am having trouble splitting a String using a regular expression

"[{'name':'abc','surname':'def'},{'name':'ghi','surname':'jkl'},{'name':'asdf','surname':'asdf'}]"

Now I'd like to split this to

"{'name':'abc','surname':'def'}" and "{'name':'ghi','surname':'jkl'}"

Later on I will deserialize both Strings and work with the values. I must admit that I've worked way too little with regular expressions and would love if someone could help me. I want to split by those square brackets as well as by the middle comma. I was either splitting by ALL commas or not splitting at all.

Kind regards

Mike Perrenoud · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-27 13:27:32Z

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This Regex will do that:

({.*?})

and here is a Regex 101 to prove it.

To use it you might do something like this:

var match = Regex.Match(input, pattern);
// match.Groups has all of the matches

answered Nov 27, 2013 at 13:27

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voskart Over a year ago

Thanks a lot. Regex 101 seems to be useful

Mike Perrenoud Over a year ago

@voskart, yeah Regex 101 is awesome for building Regex patterns. There are a lot of other tools out there, I just prefer that one.

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