Reading a string from text file with delimiters

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hi all, i have text file like this

LINE 1: {'DEPT-ELECTRICAL';'USER';
LINE 2: 'This is the first performance for DMM.'; 'TIME:12:00:00'; 'VERSION:6.1.2
LINE 3: ';'F01RY0DM08';'#history';'UP8";

I need to consider and read the contents with in single quotes as a single string. For eg., the output should be String1 = DEPT-ELECTRICAL, String2 = USER...
Semi colon is the delimiter here.

I have referred some solutions online. I copied some code for a head start eventhough it's not exactly what i require but it's giving me an error as "foreach statement cannot be applied to variables of type Systems.Text.Regularexpr.match". please help me

What I have tried:

C#

// Read all text from file
                string sData = File.ReadAllText(@"c:/file.txt");

                // Match strings between " "
                Match match = Regex.Match(sData, "\"(\\w|\\d|\\s|\\\")*\"",
                                          RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

                // Read results and strip " out of them
                foreach (var sResult in match)
                {
                    sResult = sResult.Remove(0, 1).Remove(sResult.length - 2, 1);
                    // Do whatever with sResult
                }

Posted 10-Nov-16 21:37pm

Member 12226114

Updated 10-Nov-16 22:24pm

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Midi_Mick · Answer 1 · 2016-11-10T21:54:00

Solution 1

A match is only a single result. You are looking for the collection result, "Matches"

C#

MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches(...
foreach (Match match in matches) {
   string sResult = match.Value
   ...

Posted 10-Nov-16 21:54pm

Midi_Mick

Updated 10-Nov-16 22:07pm

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Member 12226114 11-Nov-16 4:00am

I am getting 'Missing assembly reference error' now. But I included 'using System.Text.RegularExpressions;' statement already

Midi_Mick 11-Nov-16 4:06am

Apologies. The Matches declaration should be a MatchCollection. Fixing answer

Patrice T · Answer 2 · 2016-11-10T22:24:00

I fear your RegEx do not match what you looking for.
Try something like: "'(.+)';"

Here is a link to RegEx documentation:
perlre - perldoc.perl.org[^]
Here is links to tools to help build RegEx and debug them:
.NET Regex Tester - Regex Storm[^]
Expresso Regular Expression Tool[^]
This one show you the RegEx as a nice graph which is really helpful to understand what is doing a RegEx:
Debuggex: Online visual regex tester. JavaScript, Python, and PCRE.[^]