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Folks,

I was trying to parse standard Windows INI files using regular
expressions, but I can't seem to get it to work all the way....

I have two tasks, basically:

* retrieve all the section names (names between [....])

* given a section, retrieve all its key=value strings

I can achieve goal no. 1 by having a regular expression of
"\[(?<section>(.*))\].*". This seems to work okay - I can load the INI
file into a string, and apply that regex to it, and iterating over all
the .Matches and looking at the Match.Groups["section"].Value entries,
I get my section names:

	StreamReader oSR = new StreamReader(<name of my INI file>);
	string strINIFile = oSR.ReadToEnd();
	oSR.Close();

	// grab all the section names by means of a regular expression
	MatchCollection oMatches = Regex.Matches(strINIFile,
@"\[(?<section>(.*))\].*");

	foreach(Match oMatch in oMatches)
	{
		string sConfSection = oMatch.Groups["section"].Value;
		// do something with sConfSection
	}

However, I can't seem to get any regular expression working that would
pick out all the key=value pairs for me, from a given section. I
figured I'd just search for the "[section]" token, and then grab
anything up to the next "[" character - but I can't seem to get that
working.....

Any ideas???

Marc

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Marc Scheuner                        May The Source Be With You!
Bern, Switzerland                         m.scheuner(at)inova.ch