Regular expression with an = and a ;

Question

I\'m trying to use a regular expression to find all substrings that start with an equals sign (=) and ends with a semicolon (;) with any number of char

Answer 1

This may be what you are looking for. You need to specify a character set or wild card character that you are applying the asterisk to.

"=([^;]*);"

You can also use the reluctant quantifier:

"=(.*?);"

Using the parenthesis you now have groups. I believe the first group is the whole entire match, and group[1] is the group found within the parenthesis.

The code may look something like:

Regex r = new Regex("=([^;]*);");
Match m = r.Match(yourData);
while (m.Success) {
    string match = m.Groups[1];
    // match should be the text between the '=' and the ';'.
}