A way to use RegEx to find a set of filenames paths in a string

Question

Good morning guys

Is there a good way to use regular expression in C# in order to find all filenames and their paths within a string variable?

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Answer 1

If you use tag and the final text could be represented as well formatted xml document (as far as being inner xml, i.e. text without root tags), you probably can do:

var doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(String.Concat("", input, ""));

var files = doc.SelectNodes("//file"):

or

var doc = new XmlDocument();

doc.AppendChild(doc.CreateElement("root"));
doc.DocumentElement.InnerXml = input;

var nodes = doc.SelectNodes("//file");

Both method really works and are highly object-oriented, especially the second one.

And will bring rather more performance.

See also - Don't parse (X)HTML using RegEx