Regualr Expression to skip white space

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I am using regular expression to retrieve data from a string.
i have a scenario where in there may be or may not be white spaces after comma seperator
how shall i handle this.

for eg:

"myName, age" here before age there is a white space but there are chances i can get the same string with out white spaces like this "myName,age" . How shall i handle both cases using same regular expression.
please advise thanks in advance

Posted 10-Jan-12 18:13pm

arun_pk

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Amir Mahfoozi · Answer 1 · 2012-01-10T18:43:00

If you want to just separate them why using regular expressions , and not using split function :

C#

string s = "myName  ,   age  ";
List<string> fields = s.Split(',').ToList();
for (int i = 0; i < fields.Count; i++)
{
    fields[i] = fields[i].Trim();
}

You can recognize commas with "\s*[,]\s*" as the RE pattern but I think that Split function will solve your problem.

Hope it helps.

Ganesan Senthilvel · Answer 2 · 2012-01-10T18:36:00

Solution 1

Try the below RegEx code for your scenario:

C#

Regex regexObj = new Regex(@"""[^""\r\n]*""|'[^'\r\n]*'|[^,\r\n]*");

Posted 10-Jan-12 18:36pm

Ganesan Senthilvel

sravani.v · Answer 3 · 2012-01-10T20:08:00

Solution 3

Refer these:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4590298/how-to-ignore-whitespace-in-a-regular-expression-subject-string[^]

http://affy.blogspot.com/p5be/ch10.htm[^]

Posted 10-Jan-12 20:08pm

sravani.v