c# - How to get string value in brackets with regex -

c# - How to get string value in brackets with regex -

i have seen page asks same question reply given on page not seem work me.

i have text file contains lot of words in square brackets , trying remove brackets. have opened text file , converted string using streamreader class.

when seek display strings,none show up.

can tell me i'm doing wrong here? heres code:

list<string> words = new list<string>(); streamreader sr = new streamreader(file.openread(ofd.filename)); string wordlist = sr.readtoend(); textentry.text = wordlist; matchcollection matches = regex.matches(wordlist, "[(.+?)]", regexoptions.singleline); foreach (match match in matches) { string add together = match.groups[1].value; words.add(add); } foreach (string word in words) { messagebox.show(word); }

any help appreciated,thanks.

you have escape brackets, since preserved keywords in regular expressions. see in code below \ escaped too, since \ has special meaning in c#, escape escape character:

regex.matches(wordlist, "\\[(.+?)\\]", regexoptions.singleline);

or, using verbatim operator:

regex.matches(wordlist, @"\[(.+?)\]", regexoptions.singleline);

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