I need a regular expression to parse 3 sections out of the following strings:
"Hello World 12 7" -> I want ["Hello World", "12", "7"]
"Goodbye -4 72" -> I want ["Goodbye", "-4", "72"]
The text part can have any number of words and both numbers can be negative.
Many thanks in advance.
You can use method Regex.Split() and regex (?i) (?![a-z]).
Details:
(?i) Case insensitive(?!) Negative lookahead, match space not followed by [a-z]C# code:
string[] substrings = Regex.Split(input, "(?i) (?![a-z])");
Output:
["Hello World", "12", "7"]
["Goodbye", "-4", "72"]
As an alternative you could match the values:
(?:(?:[A-Z][a-z]+ )*(?:[A-Z][a-z]+)|-?\d+)
That would match:
(?: Non capturing group
(?: Non capturing group
[A-Z][a-z]+ Uppercase character followed by one or more lowercase characters and a whitespace)* Close group and repeat zero or more times(?: Non capturing group
[A-Z][a-z]+ Uppercase character followed by one or more lowercase characters) Close group| Or-?\d+ Optional dash followed by one or more digits) Close group