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Getting a numbers from a string with chars glued

I need to recover each number in a glued string
For example, from these strings:
string test = "number1+3"
string test1 = "number 1+4"
I want to recover (1 and 3) and (1 and 4)
How can I do this?
CODE
string test= "number1+3";
List<int> res;
string[] digits= Regex.Split(test, #"\D+");
foreach (string value in digits)
{
int number;
if (int.TryParse(value, out number))
{
res.Add(number)
}
}

This regex should work
string pattern = #"\d+";
string test = "number1+3";
foreach (Match match in Regex.Matches(test, pattern))
Console.WriteLine("Found '{0}' at position {1}",
match.Value, match.Index);
Note that if you intend to use it multiple times, it's better, for performance reasons, to create a Regex instance than using this static method.
var res = new List<int>();
var regex = new Regex(#"\d+");
void addMatches(string text) {
foreach (Match match in regex.Matches(text))
{
int number = int.Parse(match.Value);
res.Add(number);
}
}
string test = "number1+3";
addMatches(test);
string test1 = "number 1+4";
addMatches(test1);
MSDN link.
Fiddle 1
Fiddle 2

This calls for a regular expression:
(\d+)\+(\d+)
Test it
Match m = Regex.Match(input, #"(\d+)\+(\d+)");
string first = m.Groups[1].Captures[0].Value;
string second = m.Groups[2].Captures[0].Value;

An alternative to regular expressions:
string test = "number 1+4";
int[] numbers = test.Replace("number", string.Empty, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)
.Trim()
.Split("+", StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
.Select(x => Convert.ToInt32(x))
.ToArray();

In C#, what is the best way to parse this WIKI markup?

I need to take data that I am reading in from a WIKI markup page and store it as a table structure. I am trying to figure out how to properly parse the below markup syntax into some table data structure in C#
Here is an example table:
|| Owner || Action || Status || Comments ||
| Bill | Fix the lobby | In Progress | This is easy |
| Joe | Fix the bathroom | In Progress | Plumbing \\
\\
Electric \\
\\
Painting \\
\\
\\ |
| Scott | Fix the roof | Complete | This is expensive |
and here is how it comes in directly:
|| Owner|| Action || Status || Comments || | Bill\\ | fix the lobby |In Progress | This is eary| | Joe\\ |fix the bathroom\\ | In progress| plumbing \\Electric \\Painting \\ \\ | | Scott \\ | fix the roof \\ | Complete | this is expensive|
So as you can see:
The column headers have "||" as the separator
A row columns have a separator or "|"
A row might span multiple lines (as in the second data row example above) so i would have to keep reading until I hit the same number of "|" (cols) that I have in the header row.
I tried reading in line by line and then concatenating lines that had "\" in between then but that seemed a bit hacky.
I also tried to simply read in as a full string and then just parse by "||" first and then keep reading until I hit the same number of "|" and then go to the next row. This seemed to work but it feel like there might be a more elegant way using regular expressions or something similar.
Can anyone suggest the correct way to parse this data?

I have largely replaced the previous answer, due to the fact that the format of the input after your edit is substantially different from the one posted before. This leads to a somewhat different solution.
Because there are no longer any line breaks after a row, the only way to determine for sure where a row ends, is to require that each row has the same number of columns as the table header. That is at least if you don't want to rely on some potentially fragile white space convention present in the one and only provided example string (i.e. that the row separator is the only | not preceded by a space). Your question at least does not provide this as the specification for a row delimiter.
The below "parser" provides at least the error handling validity checks that can be derived from your format specification and example string and also allows for tables that have no rows. The comments explain what it is doing in basic steps.
public class TableParser
{
const StringSplitOptions SplitOpts = StringSplitOptions.None;
const string RowColSep = "|";
static readonly string[] HeaderColSplit = { "||" };
static readonly string[] RowColSplit = { RowColSep };
static readonly string[] MLColSplit = { #"\\" };
public class TableRow
{
public List<string[]> Cells;
}
public class Table
{
public string[] Header;
public TableRow[] Rows;
}
public static Table Parse(string text)
{
// Isolate the header columns and rows remainder.
var headerSplit = text.Split(HeaderColSplit, SplitOpts);
Ensure(headerSplit.Length > 1, "At least 1 header column is required in the input");
// Need to check whether there are any rows.
var hasRows = headerSplit.Last().IndexOf(RowColSep) >= 0;
var header = headerSplit.Skip(1)
.Take(headerSplit.Length - (hasRows ? 2 : 1))
.Select(c => c.Trim())
.ToArray();
if (!hasRows) // If no rows for this table, we are done.
return new Table() { Header = header, Rows = new TableRow[0] };
// Get all row columns from the remainder.
var rowsCols = headerSplit.Last().Split(RowColSplit, SplitOpts);
// Require same amount of columns for a row as the header.
Ensure((rowsCols.Length % (header.Length + 1)) == 1,
"The number of row colums does not match the number of header columns");
var rows = new TableRow[(rowsCols.Length - 1) / (header.Length + 1)];
// Fill rows by sequentially taking # header column cells
for (int ri = 0, start = 1; ri < rows.Length; ri++, start += header.Length + 1)
{
rows[ri] = new TableRow() {
Cells = rowsCols.Skip(start).Take(header.Length)
.Select(c => c.Split(MLColSplit, SplitOpts).Select(p => p.Trim()).ToArray())
.ToList()
};
};
return new Table { Header = header, Rows = rows };
}
private static void Ensure(bool check, string errorMsg)
{
if (!check)
throw new InvalidDataException(errorMsg);
}
}
When used like this:
public static void Main(params string[] args)
{
var wikiLine = #"|| Owner|| Action || Status || Comments || | Bill\\ | fix the lobby |In Progress | This is eary| | Joe\\ |fix the bathroom\\ | In progress| plumbing \\Electric \\Painting \\ \\ | | Scott \\ | fix the roof \\ | Complete | this is expensive|";
var table = TableParser.Parse(wikiLine);
Console.WriteLine(string.Join(", ", table.Header));
foreach (var r in table.Rows)
Console.WriteLine(string.Join(", ", r.Cells.Select(c => string.Join(Environment.NewLine + "\t# ", c))));
}
It will produce the below output:
Where "\t# " represents a newline caused by the presence of \\ in the input.

Here's a solution which populates a DataTable. It does require a litte bit of data massaging (Trim), but the main parsing is Splits and Linq.
var str = #"|| Owner|| Action || Status || Comments || | Bill\\ | fix the lobby |In Progress | This is eary| | Joe\\ |fix the bathroom\\ | In progress| plumbing \\Electric \\Painting \\ \\ | | Scott \\ | fix the roof \\ | Complete | this is expensive|";
var headerStop = str.LastIndexOf("||");
var headers = str.Substring(0, headerStop).Split(new string[1] { "||" }, StringSplitOptions.None).Skip(1).ToList();
var records = str.Substring(headerStop + 4).TrimEnd(new char[2] { ' ', '|' }).Split(new string[1] { "| |" }, StringSplitOptions.None).ToList();
var tbl = new DataTable();
headers.ForEach(h => tbl.Columns.Add(h.Trim()));
records.ForEach(r => tbl.Rows.Add(r.Split('|')));

This makes some assumptions but seems to work for your sample data. I'm sure if I worked at I could combine the expressions and clean it up but you'll get the idea.
It will also allow for rows that do not have the same number of cells as the header which I think is something confluence can do.
List<List<string>> table = new List<List<string>>();
var match = Regex.Match(raw, #"(?:(?:\|\|([^|]*))*\n)?");
if (match.Success)
{
var headersWithExtra = match.Groups[1].Captures.Cast<Capture>().Select(c=>c.Value);
List<String> headerRow = headersWithExtra.Take(headersWithExtra.Count()-1).ToList();
if (headerRow.Count > 0)
{
table.Add(headerRow);
}
}
match = Regex.Match(raw + "\r\n", #"[^\n]*\n" + #"(?:\|([^|]*))*");
var cellsWithExtra = match.Groups[1].Captures.Cast<Capture>().Select(c=>c.Value);
List<string> row = new List<string>();
foreach (string cell in cellsWithExtra)
{
if (cell.Trim(' ', '\t') == "\r\n")
{
if (!table.Contains(row) && row.Count > 0)
{
table.Add(row);
}
row = new List<string>();
}
else
{
row.Add(cell);
}
}

This ended up very similar to Jon Tirjan's answer, although it cuts the LINQ to a single statement (the code to replace that last one was horrifically ugly) and is a bit more extensible. For example, it will replace the Confluence line breaks \\ with a string of your choosing, you can choose to trim or not trim whitespace from around elements, etc.
private void ParseWikiTable(string input, string newLineReplacement = " ")
{
string separatorHeader = "||";
string separatorRow = "| |";
string separatorElement = "|";
input = Regex.Replace(input, #"[ \\]{2,}", newLineReplacement);
string inputHeader = input.Substring(0, input.LastIndexOf(separatorHeader));
string inputContent = input.Substring(input.LastIndexOf(separatorHeader) + separatorHeader.Length);
string[] headerArray = SimpleSplit(inputHeader, separatorHeader);
string[][] rowArray = SimpleSplit(inputContent, separatorRow).Select(r => SimpleSplit(r, separatorElement)).ToArray();
// do something with output data
TestPrint(headerArray);
foreach (var r in rowArray) { TestPrint(r); }
}
private string[] SimpleSplit(string input, string separator, bool trimWhitespace = true)
{
input = input.Trim();
if (input.StartsWith(separator)) { input = input.Substring(separator.Length); }
if (input.EndsWith(separator)) { input = input.Substring(0, input.Length - separator.Length); }
string[] segments = input.Split(new string[] { separator }, StringSplitOptions.None);
if (trimWhitespace)
{
for (int i = 0; i < segments.Length; i++)
{
segments[i] = segments[i].Trim();
}
}
return segments;
}
private void TestPrint(string[] lst)
{
string joined = "[" + String.Join("::", lst) + "]";
Console.WriteLine(joined);
}
Console output from your direct input string:
[Owner::Action::Status::Comments]
[Bill::fix the lobby::In Progress::This is eary]
[Joe::fix the bathroom::In progress::plumbing Electric Painting]
[Scott::fix the roof::Complete::this is expensive]

A generic regex solution that populate a datatable and is a little flexible with the syntax.
var text = #"|| Owner|| Action || Status || Comments || | Bill\\ | fix the lobby |In Progress | This is eary| | Joe\\ |fix the bathroom\\ | In progress| plumbing \\Electric \\Painting \\ \\ | | Scott \\ | fix the roof \\ | Complete | this is expensive|";
// Get Headers
var regHeaders = new Regex(#"\|\|\s*(\w[^\|]+)", RegexOptions.Compiled);
var headers = regHeaders.Matches(text);
//Get Rows, based on number of headers columns
var regLinhas = new Regex(String.Format(#"(?:\|\s*(\w[^\|]+)){{{0}}}", headers.Count));
var rows = regLinhas.Matches(text);
var tbl = new DataTable();
foreach (Match header in headers)
{
tbl.Columns.Add(header.Groups[1].Value);
}
foreach (Match row in rows)
{
tbl.Rows.Add(row.Groups[1].Captures.OfType<Capture>().Select(col => col.Value).ToArray());
}

Here's a solution involving regular expressions. It takes a single string as input and returns a List of headers and a List> of rows/columns. It also trims white space, which may or may not be the desired behavior, so be aware of that. It even prints things nicely :)
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
namespace parseWiki
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string content = #"|| Owner || Action || Status || Comments || | Bill\\ | fix the lobby |In Progress | This is eary| | Joe\\ |fix the bathroom\\ | In progress| plumbing \\Electric \\Painting \\ \\ | | Scott \\ | fix the roof \\ | Complete | this is expensive|";
content = content.Replace(#"\\", "");
string headerContent = content.Substring(0, content.LastIndexOf("||") + 2);
string cellContent = content.Substring(content.LastIndexOf("||") + 2);
MatchCollection headerMatches = new Regex(#"\|\|([^|]*)(?=\|\|)", RegexOptions.Singleline).Matches(headerContent);
MatchCollection cellMatches = new Regex(#"\|([^|]*)(?=\|)", RegexOptions.Singleline).Matches(cellContent);
List<string> headers = new List<string>();
foreach (Match match in headerMatches)
{
if (match.Groups.Count > 1)
{
headers.Add(match.Groups[1].Value.Trim());
}
}
List<List<string>> body = new List<List<string>>();
List<string> newRow = new List<string>();
foreach (Match match in cellMatches)
{
if (newRow.Count > 0 && newRow.Count % headers.Count == 0)
{
body.Add(newRow);
newRow = new List<string>();
}
else
{
newRow.Add(match.Groups[1].Value.Trim());
}
}
body.Add(newRow);
print(headers, body);
}
static void print(List<string> headers, List<List<string>> body)
{
var CELL_SIZE = 20;
for (int i = 0; i < headers.Count; i++)
{
Console.Write(headers[i].Truncate(CELL_SIZE).PadRight(CELL_SIZE) + " ");
}
Console.WriteLine("\n" + "".PadRight( (CELL_SIZE + 2) * headers.Count, '-'));
for (int r = 0; r < body.Count; r++)
{
List<string> row = body[r];
for (int c = 0; c < row.Count; c++)
{
Console.Write(row[c].Truncate(CELL_SIZE).PadRight(CELL_SIZE) + " ");
}
Console.WriteLine("");
}
Console.WriteLine("\n\n\n");
Console.ReadKey(false);
}
}
public static class StringExt
{
public static string Truncate(this string value, int maxLength)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(value) || value.Length <= maxLength) return value;
return value.Substring(0, maxLength - 3) + "...";
}
}
}

Read the input string one character at a time and use a state-machine to decide what should be done with each input character. This approach probably needs more code, but it will be easier to maintain and to extend than regular expressions.

Extracting parts of a string c#

In C# what would be the best way of splitting this sort of string?
%%x%%a,b,c,d
So that I end up with the value between the %% AND another variable containing everything right of the second %%
i.e. var x = "x"; var y = "a,b,c,d"
Where a,b,c.. could be an infinite comma seperated list. I need to extract the list and the value between the two double-percentage signs.
(To combat the infinite part, I thought perhaps seperating the string out to: %%x%% and a,b,c,d. At this point I can just use something like this to get X.
var tag = "%%";
var startTag = tag;
int startIndex = s.IndexOf(startTag) + startTag.Length;
int endIndex = s.IndexOf(tag, startIndex);
return s.Substring(startIndex, endIndex - startIndex);
Would the best approach be to use regex or use lots of indexOf and substring to do the extracting based on te static %% characters?

Given that what you want is "x,a,b,c,d" the Split() function is actually pretty powerful and regex would be overkill for this.
Here's an example:
string test = "%%x%%a,b,c,d";
string[] result = test.Split(new char[] { '%', ',' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
foreach (string s in result) {
Console.WriteLine(s);
}
Basicly we ask it to split by both '%' and ',' and ignore empty results (eg. the result between "%%"). Here's the result:
x
a
b
c
d

To Extract X:
If %% is always at the start then;
string s = "%%x%%a,b,c,d,h";
s = s.Substring(2,s.LastIndexOf("%%")-2);
//Console.WriteLine(s);
Else;
string s = "v,u,m,n,%%x%%a,b,c,d,h";
s = s.Substring(s.IndexOf("%%")+2,s.LastIndexOf("%%")-s.IndexOf("%%")-2);
//Console.WriteLine(s);
If you need to get them all at once then use this;
string s = "m,n,%%x%%a,b,c,d";
var myList = s.ToArray()
.Where(c=> (c != '%' && c!=','))
.Select(c=>c).ToList();

This'll let you do it all in one go:
string pattern = "^%%(.+?)%%(?:(.+?)(?:,|$))*$";
string input = "%%x%%a,b,c,d";
Match match = Regex.Match(input, pattern);
if (match.Success)
{
// "x"
string first = match.Groups[1].Value;
// { "a", "b", "c", "d" }
string[] repeated = match.Groups[2].Captures.Cast<Capture>()
.Select(c => c.Value).ToArray();
}

You can use the char.IsLetter to get all the list of letter
string test = "%%x%%a,b,c,d";
var l = test.Where(c => char.IsLetter(c)).ToArray();
var output = string.Join(", ", l.OrderBy(c => c));

Since you want the value between the %% and everything after in separate variables and you don't need to parse the CSV, I think a RegEx solution would be your best choice.
var inputString = #"%%x%%a,b,c,d";
var regExPattern = #"^%%(?<x>.+)%%(?<csv>.+)$";
var match = Regex.Match(inputString, regExPattern);
foreach (var item in match.Groups)
{
Console.WriteLine(item);
}
The pattern has 2 named groups called x and csv, so rather than just looping, you can easily reference them by name and assign them to values:
var x = match.Groups["x"];
var y = match.Groups["csv"];

C# extract words using regex

I've found a lot of examples of how to check something using regex, or how to split text using regular expressions.
But how can I extract words out of a string ?
Example:
aaaa 12312 <asdad> 12334 </asdad>
Lets say I have something like this, and I want to extract all the numbers [0-9]* and put them in a list.
Or if I have 2 different kind of elements:
aaaa 1234 ...... 1234 ::::: asgsgd
And I want to choose digits that come after ..... and words that come after ::::::
Can I extract these strings in a single regex ?

Here's a solution for your first problem:
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string data = "aaaa 12312 <asdad> 12334 </asdad>";
Regex reg = new Regex("[0-9]+");
foreach (var match in reg.Matches(data))
{
Console.WriteLine(match);
}
Console.ReadLine();
}
}

In the general case, you can do this using capturing parentheses:
string input = "aaaa 1234 ...... 1234 ::::: asgsgd";
string regex = #"\.\.\.\. (\d+) ::::: (\w+)";
Match m = Regex.Match(input, regex);
if (m.Success) {
int numberAfterDots = int.Parse(m.Groups[1].Value);
string wordAfterColons = m.Groups[2].Value;
// ... Do something with these values
}
But the first part you asked (extract all the numbers) is a bit easier:
string input = "aaaa 1234 ...... 1234 ::::: asgsgd";
var numbers = Regex.Matches(input, #"\d+")
.Cast<Match>()
.Select(m => int.Parse(m.Value))
.ToList();
Now numbers will be a list of integers.

For your specific examples:
string firstString = "aaaa 12312 <asdad> 12334 </asdad>";
Regex firstRegex = new Regex(#"(?<Digits>[\d]+)", RegexOptions.ExplicitCapture);
if (firstRegex.IsMatch(firstString))
{
MatchCollection firstMatches = firstRegex.Matches(firstString);
foreach (Match match in firstMatches)
{
Console.WriteLine("Digits: " + match.Groups["Digits"].Value);
}
}
string secondString = "aaaa 1234 ...... 1234 ::::: asgsgd";
Regex secondRegex = new Regex(#"([\.]+\s(?<Digits>[\d]+))|([\:]+\s(?<Words>[a-zA-Z]+))", RegexOptions.ExplicitCapture);
if (secondRegex.IsMatch(secondString))
{
MatchCollection secondMatches = secondRegex.Matches(secondString);
foreach (Match match in secondMatches)
{
if (match.Groups["Digits"].Success)
{
Console.WriteLine("Digits: " + match.Groups["Digits"].Value);
}
if (match.Groups["Words"].Success)
{
Console.WriteLine("Words: " + match.Groups["Words"].Value);
}
}
}
Hope that helps. The output is:
Digits: 12312
Digits: 12334
Digits: 1234
Words: asgsgd

Something like this will do nicely!
var text = "aaaa 12312 <asdad> 12334 </asdad>";
var matches = Regex.Matches(text, #"\w+");
var arrayOfMatched = matches.Cast<Match>().Select(m => m.Value).ToArray();
Console.WriteLine(string.Join(", ", arrayOfMatched));
\w+ Matches consecutive word characters. Then we just selected the values out of the list of matches and turn them into an array.

Regex itemsRegex = new Regex(#"(\d*)");
MatchCollection matches = itemsRegex.Matches(text);
int[] values = matches.Cast<Match>().Select(m => Convert.ToInt32(m.Value)).ToArray();

Regex phoneregex = new Regex("[0-9][0-9][0-9]\-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]");
String unicornCanneryDirectory = "unicorn cannery 483-8627 cha..."
String numbersToCall = "";
//the second argument is where to begin within the match,
//we probably want 0, the first character
Match matchIterator = phoneregex.Match(unicornCanneryDirectory , 0);
//Success tells us if matchIterator has another match or not
while( matchIterator.Sucess){
String aResult = matchIterator.Result();
//we could manipulate our match now but I'm going to concatenate them all for later
numbersToCall += aResult + " ";
matchIterator = matchIterator.NextMatch();
}
// use my concatenated matches now
String message = "Unicorn rights activists demand more sparkles in the unicorn canneries under the new law...";
phoneDialer.MassCallWithAutomatedMessage(aResult, message );
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.match.nextmatch.aspx

c# string manipulation

I have string of 9 letters.
string myString = "123987898";
I want to retrieve the first 3 letters "123"
then 2 more letters "98"
and then 4 more letters "7898".
Which c# string function support this functionality.

You can use Substring:
myString.Substring(0,3)
myString.Substring(3,2)
myString.Substring(5,4)
It's also possible to make it more complicated than necessary by using a combination of regular expressions and LINQ:
string myString = "123987898";
Regex regex = new Regex("(.{3})(.{2})(.{4})");
string[] bits = regex
.Match(myString)
.Groups
.Cast<Group>()
.Skip(1)
.Select(match => match.Value)
.ToArray();

There is nothing built in but it is easy enough to make yourself.
public static IEnumerable<string> SplitBySize(string value, IEnumerable<int> sizes)
{
if (value == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("value");
if (sizes == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("sizes");
var length = value.Length;
var currentIndex = 0;
foreach (var size in sizes)
{
var nextIndex = currentIndex + size;
if (nextIndex > length)
{
throw new ArgumentException("The sum of the sizes specified is larger than the length of the value specified.", "sizes");
}
yield return value.Substring(currentIndex, size);
currentIndex = nextIndex;
}
}
Example Usage
foreach (var item in SplitBySize("1234567890", new[] { 2, 3, 5 }))
{
Console.WriteLine(item);
}
Console.ReadKey();

The best and robust way of dealing with this is to use a regex
public Regex MyRegex = new Regex(
"(?\\d{3})(?\\d{2})(?\\d{4})",
RegexOptions.IgnoreCase
| RegexOptions.CultureInvariant
| RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace
| RegexOptions.Compiled
);
Then you can access them through the Groups property of the Match instance
Match m = MyRegex.Match("123987898");
if (m.Success){
int first3 = int.Parse(m.Groups["first3"].Value;
int next2 = int.Parse(m.Groups["next2"].Value;
int last4 = int.Parse(m.Groups["last4"].Value;
/* Do whatever you have to do with first3, next2 and last 4! */
}