Why i everyone moaning about this question and marking it down? it's incredibly easy to explain what is happening and the questioner was right to say it as he did. There is nothing wrong whatsoever.
Regex.Match(variables[3], @"\d+").Value
throws a Input string was not in a correct format.. FormatException if the string (here it's variables[3]) doesn't contain any numbers. It also does it if it can't access variables[3] within the memory stack of an Array when running as a service. I SUSPECT THIS IS A BUG The error is that the .Value is empty and the .Match failed.
Now quite honestly this is a feature masquerading as a bug if you ask me, but it's meant to be a design feature. The right way (IMHO) to have done this method would be to return a blank string. But they don't they throw a FormatException. Go figure. It is for this reason you were advised by astef to not even bother with Regex because it throws exceptions and is confusing. But he got marked down too!
The way round it is to use this simple additional method they also made
if (Regex.IsMatch(variables[3], @"\d+")){
temp = Regex.Match(variables[3], @"\d+").Value
}
If this still doesn't work for you you cannot use Regex for this. I have seen in a c# service that this doesn't work and throws incorrect errors. So I had to stop using Regex
tempplease. That might enlighten you somewhat.string, so you can't assign toint temp, etc)variables[3]