jovball
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Use regEx to get substrings
I am trying to extract certain values from a long text file (actually postscript). It is mostly unstructured so I need a flexible parsing method. I think I'm looking for the RegEx counterpart to a SQL Like valuestartswith%valueendsw
I put some sample data below. The initial goal is just to retrieve the text between the "/Type" and "end" for each block of data. Alternatively, it would be fine to strip out the other text. It would be even better if I could extract an array containing Type,Q,D,A for each block.
My preferred language would be .Net but I'm not closed to other options.
Here is some sample data
/Type Text
/Q (dept)
/D (sales)
/A (1)
end
/random text
/more random text
/still more random text
/Type Date
/Q (birthdate)
/A (Jan-1-1968)
end
/other stuff
/more other stuff
/Type Text
/Q (title)
/A (Asst. Marketing VP)
end
I put some sample data below. The initial goal is just to retrieve the text between the "/Type" and "end" for each block of data. Alternatively, it would be fine to strip out the other text. It would be even better if I could extract an array containing Type,Q,D,A for each block.
My preferred language would be .Net but I'm not closed to other options.
Here is some sample data
/Type Text
/Q (dept)
/D (sales)
/A (1)
end
/random text
/more random text
/still more random text
/Type Date
/Q (birthdate)
/A (Jan-1-1968)
end
/other stuff
/more other stuff
/Type Text
/Q (title)
/A (Asst. Marketing VP)
end
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