Generate Regex to find strings with following condition

Question

Please suggest me regex pattern for the string like below: <[XYZ-ABC]>

I have to find these strings using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word and then save the search string in database.

Thanks for any help provided.

For a second I thought you were trying to [parse HTML with Regex](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/643085) — Federico Berasategui, Jul 16 '13 at 19:23
I am new to using regex expressions, so was confused and posted for help. Thanks all. — Ruchi, Jul 16 '13 at 19:27

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 16 '13 at 19:31

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Got one answer please let me know if its correct:

<[^/>]*>

edited Jul 16 '13 at 19:31

Anirudha

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answered Jul 16 '13 at 19:23

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That's exactly it. Nice. – Andrew Cheong Jul 16 '13 at 19:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 16 '13 at 20:51

Try this:

private Regex angleReg = new Regex(@"<([^>]+)>\s+<([^>]+)>");

private string[] parse(string rawInput)
{
    Match angleMatch = angleReg.Match(rawInput);

    if (angleMatch.Success)
    {
        return new string[] { angleMatch.Groups[1].Value, angleMatch.Groups[2].Value };
    }
    else
    {
        return null;
    }
}

In a .NET regex, the things like [^abcd] mean "anything not a, b, c or d" so in our case we want anything not ">". [^>]+ means "anything not >" "one or more times" which is what + is. So a+ matches "a", "aa", "aaa", etc. (x)(y) matches "xy" but then, in your Match object, the .Groups list will contain "x" at Groups[1] and "y" at Groups[2] for easy access to the matched strings.

Generate Regex to find strings with following condition

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