Vb.net select data in string

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Hello. As I have a problem. I want to separate the data, such as in the following example. Thank you in advance.

note: ^^^X^A1.....^B1.....^C1.....^D1....^E1....^A2....^B2...^C2....^D2....^E2...^^^_X
....( Any data can be)

sample string= ^^^X^A12505361170^B1255907002^C1ABCD^D12555^E12014/10/10 23:10:02^^^_X

Textbox1.text=2505361170

textbox2.text=255907002

textbox3.text=ABCD

textbox4.text=2555

textbox5.text=2014/10/10 23:10:02

Posted 11-Oct-14 1:27am

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[no name] 11-Oct-14 7:42am

So split it and parse out the data, or write a regular expression.

CHill60 11-Oct-14 7:50am

Are you saying that any character following a ^ should be ignored - that they are some kind of marker?

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CHill60 · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-11T02:18:00

There are several ways you could do this.

Regular Expressions are one way, but I think it might be a bit too complex for this scenario.

You could use "brute force" parsing ... i.e. read the string one character at a time, ignoring ^ and anything immediately afterwards, building up another string until you hit another ^. But that is very clunky.

Or you could use the built-in VB.NET method Split()[^]

Something similar to this would work:

VB

Dim sample As String = "^^^X^A12505361170^B1255907002^C1ABCD^D12555^E12014/10/10 23:10:02^^^_X"

Dim splitSample As String() = Split(sample, "^", -1, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)

For Each token As String In splitSample
    If token.Length > 1 Then
        Debug.Print(token.Substring(2)) 'this is where you assign to your text boxes
    End If
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