Dynamic Text and Text Formatting Tag Parser/Method/Regex

Discussion created by Me2 on Oct 5, 2011
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Hi:

I need to parse both dynamic text and text formatting tags to get to the actual displayed text string. I couldn't find an ArcObjects method that does that.

Has anybody developed such parser and if so how can I access it? I would expect that it would be based on Regular Expresssions (regex). I am using .NET.

Thanks,
Dennis

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Me2 Oct 7, 2011 7:36 AM
The beginning of a solution?

I found two useful links:
- http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=993&t=293098
- http://help.arcgis.com/en/sdk/10.0/arcobjects_net/componenthelp/index.html#/SimpleTextParserClass_Class/001w000003t0000000/
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jamesfreddyc Oct 7, 2011 7:51 AM
Hi:

I need to parse both dynamic text and text formatting tags to get to the actual displayed text string. I couldn't find an ArcObjects method that does that.

Has anybody developed such parser and if so how can I access it? I would expect that it would be based on Regular Expresssions (regex). I am using .NET.

Thanks,
Dennis

Without knowing exactly what it is you are attempting to accomplish, here's a very simple example of how to use Regex. The result would be the MsgBox popup as "blah2".

(also: you will need Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions)
```
            Dim theString As String = "blah1 blah2 blah3"
            Dim rx As New Regex("blah2(.*?)")
            Dim matches As MatchCollection = rx.Matches(theString)

            For Each match As Match In matches
                Dim groups As GroupCollection = match.Groups
                MsgBox("Found :" & groups.Item(0).Value() & groups.Item(1).Value)
            Next
```
Hope this helps!
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Me2 Oct 19, 2011 4:25 PM
Thanks,
Dennis
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