How to: Use Regular Expressions to Extract Data Fields (C++/CLI)
The following code example demonstrates the use of regular expressions to extract data from a formatted string. The following code example uses the Regex class to specify a pattern that corresponds to an e-mail address. This patter includes field identifiers that can be used to retrieve the user and host name portions of each e-mail address. The Match class is used to perform the actual pattern matching. If the given e-mail address is valid, the user name and host names are extracted and displayed.
Example
// Regex_extract.cpp
// compile with: /clr
#using <System.dll>
using namespace System;
using namespace System::Text::RegularExpressions;
int main()
{
array<String^>^ address=
{
"jay@southridgevideo.com",
"barry@adatum.com",
"treyresearch.net",
"karen@proseware.com"
};
Regex^ emailregex = gcnew Regex("(?<user>[^@]+)@(?<host>.+)");
for (int i=0; i<address->Length; i++)
{
Match^ m = emailregex->Match( address[i] );
Console::Write("\n{0,25}", address[i]);
if ( m->Success )
{
Console::Write(" User='{0}'",
m->Groups["user"]->Value);
Console::Write(" Host='{0}'",
m->Groups["host"]->Value);
}
else
Console::Write(" (invalid email address)");
}
Console::WriteLine("");
return 0;
}