I have a regular axpression that looks like its suppose to work.
"[^X-]+(Priority:)[\s|=20]+(.+)[\s|=20]"

Suppose to match the word Priority: and give the items after that word

there is a part in the document where it says X-Priority: and that is the information it is pulling out for me.

How do I skip the X-Priority: and go to where it says Priority: ?

Also,
I am trying to read the multiple lines.
Item: some text here and an equals sign =
some more here
and finally some more here

I need all that to go into one line and drop the equals sign, like --
some text here and an equals sign some more here and finally some more here

here is the expression i am using for that:
"(Item:)[\s|=20]+(.+)[\s|=20|=]"

Will someone please help me with this?

Thanks
Eric

Eric,

It does look ok. Try out this simple regex tester: http://www.geekdork.com/tools/DotNetRegExTest.aspx
Maybe there is just a little glitch in your expression that I'm not seeing.

Peter
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I tried this expression (Item:)[\s|=20]+(.+)[\s|=20|=] on that page with
Item: some text here and an equals sign =
some more here
and finally some more here

and got this result:
Results: Regular Expression returned the following matches:
Item: some text here and an equals sign =

any ideas??

I'm a little confused...

What is meant by the "=20"? Is that something that's happening with your posts or does your regex actually include "=20"?

Perhaps the problem you are having is with the grouping characters. Tell you what... Post an example of the source text you are searching in, and highlight what you want to retrieve in red. Maybe that will make it easier for use to see what you are trying to achieve.

But I'm pretty sure you need to apply an Atomic Zero-Width Assertion to specify that "Priority" should appear at the beginning of the line. Try this regex (remember that you'll need to create your regex with the MultiLine option):

^Priority:.*


For the part where you need to remove the = and carriage returns, can't you just use a simple search and replace? First search for "=" & Environment.Newline and replace that with String.Empty, then search for just Environment.Newline and replace that with String.Empty. That should work for you.

Peter
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