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Regex matches dynamic pattern

I have a string that I need to parse using Regex (or Match):

SomeTextHereThatIWantToIgnore: <First Month.104.yyyy-mm-dd> <Last Day.2.yyyy-mm-dd>"  OR SomeTextHereThatIWantToIgnore: "<BadVerb.104>"

There may be one, two or three lines (all on one line) that I want to parse. In each case, I want to capture everything between "<" and ">".

So, in the first example, I want to capture "First Month.104.yyyy-mm-dd" and "Last Day.2.yyyy-mm-dd". In the second example, I would like to capture "BadVerb.104".

Any Regex gurus who can show me how to do this?

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Basic regex to get text inside angle brackets without capturing brackets

(?<=<)[^>]+(?=>)


Use Regex.Matches

to get your matches.

var matches = Regex.Matches(str, @"(?<=<)[^>]+(?=>)");
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You can use the following (with a modifier s

for multiple string matches):

(?s)(?<=&lt;).*?(?=&gt;)


See DEMO

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Try: &lt;[\s\S]*&gt;

[\ s \ S] captures any space character or any non-space character, so together they will capture anything between &lt;

and &gt;

.

See here

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Thanks, stribizhev, I didn't know about the Matches collection. I ended up making a simple template:

[<]([^>]+)

that is, search for "<" and then grab anything that is not ">". The collection of matches is the part I was looking for. I repeated the assembly of Match and was able to parse the resulting string and get what I wanted.

Thanks to Sami, Kartik and Walker (it looks simple too).

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