Regex match text outside of brackets

I'm currently using this regex but can figure out how to get the text group to combine its result.

String: Text 1^%+TAB(CMD 1CMD 2)Text 2.^(abc)

Regex: (?<special>[^+%]*?[(][^)]*[)])|(?<special>[^+%]*?[][^]*[}])|(?<text>.)

Result:
text: T
text: e
text: x
text: t
text:
text: 1
special: ^%+TAB
special: (CMD 1CMD 2)
text: T
text: e
text: x
text: t
text:
text: 2
special: ^(abc)

Wanted:
text: Text 1
special: ^%+TAB
special: (CMD 1CMD 2)
text: Text 2
special: ^(abc)


Ultimately I want "Text 1" and "Text 2" to be two groups in the text group. Can't seem to get the text group not to interfere with the special group when adding .*?(..) for the life of me.

(?<special>[+^%]*(?:([^)]*)|[^]*}))|(?<text>[ws]+)

2 Answers
2

You may use

(?<special>[+^%]*(?:([^)]*)|[^]*}))|(?<text>[ws]+)


See the regex demo.

Details

(?<special>[+^%]*(?:([^)]*)|[^]*}))

[+^%]*

+

^

%

(?:

([^)]*)

(

)

)

|

[^]*}

}

)

|

(?<text>[ws]+)

TEXT 1SPECIAL 1TEXT ^+% 2+^%(SPECIAL +^% 2)

match.Groups["special"].Value.Replace("[", "").Replace("]", "").Replace("", "").Replace("", "")

Regex.Replace(match.Groups["special"].Value, @"[]+", "")

Try following :

string input = "Text 1^%+TAB(CMD 1CMD 2)Text 2.^(abc)";
string pattern = @"^(?'text1'[^^]+)(?'special1'[^(]+)(?'special2'[^)]+))(?'text2'[^^]+)(?'special3'.*)";

Match match = Regex.Match(input, pattern);
Console.WriteLine("Text : '0' Special : '1' Special : '2' Text : '3' Special : '4'",
match.Groups["text1"].Value,
match.Groups["special1"].Value,
match.Groups["special2"].Value,
match.Groups["text2"].Value,
match.Groups["special3"].Value
);
Console.ReadLine();


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