How to extract a list of substrings from a string which match specified format using Regex

[12Code]

For exemple, i have a string = "**%alan#**23**%12:34:50#**ab **%regular#**]r"; Extract string which enclosed by '%' and '#' The substring result should be substr[0] = "alan"; substr[1] = "12:34:50"; substr[2] = "regular"; How to do it in Regex?

8.Kelvin()
{
while (!(the machine can program itself))
Wont_stop_coding = true;
}

[Christian Graus]

Read up on grouping in regex. You can do exactly this by specifying which parts of your match to return.

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[12Code]

i tried this code..

        string str = "%alan#23%12:34:50#ab %regular#\]r";

        Regex RE = new Regex(@"(\\%+)\\#"); 
        MatchCollection MC = RE.Matches(str);

        if (MC.Count == 0) MessageBox.Show("No match");
        foreach (Match M in MC)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(M.ToString());
        }

But when execute it, i only got "No match" message box. :(

Christian Graus wrote:

grouping in regex

I'm not good in grouping regex, pls advise..

8.Kelvin()
{
while (!(the machine can program itself))
Wont_stop_coding = true;
}

[12Code]

I think i got it.. the regex should be: Regex RE = new Regex(@"(\%(\w|\: )+)\#");

8.Kelvin()
{
while (!(the machine can program itself))
Wont_stop_coding = true;
}