Need to parse a string in vb.net

I recommend you learn to fish as it will pay off dividends, and this is an extremely simple string to parse with regex.

Edit: It is even simpler than I thought. You don't have to use most of the stuff I mentioned here, as you won't have to wade through multiple of these measurements on the same line. Check out Yuriy's answer. Still, check out the rest of this and start learning some regex :)

You'll have to use grouping/captures to grab the data out that you've matched. Wrap what you are trying to match with parens to do this:

(someTextToMatch)

Don't group things you don't need to capture, or use non-capturing groups for those:

(?:someTextToMatch)

(you probably won't need these for this example, but you may need them eventually as you only get 9 captures)

Immediately useful language elements:

\s     match any single whitespace character
\d     match any single digit
.      match any single character
[Xx]   match a single upper-case or lower-case x
?      match one or zero of the previous match
+      match one or more of the previous match
*      match zero or more of the previous match (probably won't need this here)

Some docs:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs600312(v=vs.71).aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az24scfc(v=vs.71).aspx

I also recommend googling for regular expression tutorials. Here's one that is .Net specific:

• http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/regextutorial.aspx

Somthing like the following would be the quick way of doing it

Dim s as string = GetStrinFromDocs()

' remove quotes
s.replace("""","")

'remove other chars
s.replace("w","")
s.replace("h","")

dim Width as integer = ctype(s.split("x")(0),integer)
dim Height as integer = ctype(s.split("x")(1),integer)

You should consider using regular expressions to do this too,

http://www.regular-expressions.info/dotnet.html